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Slavery -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Arlowen Jordan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-2696
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A manuscript journal (1879) of a wagon train trip to the Cherokee Outlet presumably by Thomas Jefferson Jordan, Jr.; a land allotment deed of the Cherokee Nation for Watie B. Jordan (1907); a hand-copied bill of sale for a slave sold to "Stan Waity" (1856); plus transcriptions and digital copies of these original documents.

Dates: 1856-1907

Arthur H. DeRosier Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-958
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Photocopies of correspondence (1780-1842) between William and Diana Dunbar regarding the American Revolution, New Orleans, and the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, along with correspondence (1901-1903) between the Department of the Interior and its surveyor, Charles L. Wood, regarding townsite locations and surveys in Indian Territory.

Dates: 1780-1903

John Samuel Ezell Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-997
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History professor. Transcript of an oral history interview (1984) conducted by Herbert R. Hengst with John S. Ezell, recounting Ezell's tenure as Dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; research and seminar papers (1955-1980) written by Ezell's students and colleagues, including three by Jack Ericson Eblen concerning the growth of the black slave population in nineteenth-century America and Cuba, and one by Gary L. Cunningham concerning gambling in frontier Kansas.

Dates: 1955-1984