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1Author:  Edwards, BenjaminRequires cookie*
 Title:  Benjamin Edwards Papers     
 Dates:  1819-1827 
 Abstract:  Two letters in this brief collection may be of interest to students of African American history. In letters dated 27 March 1823 and 1 March 1824, Benjamin Edwards discusses his experiences as a slave overseer at a sawmill in Louisiana. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.Ed9 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  African American | Edwards, Benjamin | Edwards, Oliver | Exploration | Exploration. | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864 | Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | West (U.S.)-Description and travel 
2Author:  Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857Requires cookie*
 Title:  Elisha Kent Kane Papers     
 Dates:  1810-1953 
 Abstract:  Among the most popular of American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, Kane visited Africa in 1846 aboard the frigate United States. The Kane collection contains a variety of fascinating materials relating to the slave trade and plight of African Americans in the nineteenth century. The papers consist of manuscript materials entitled "Journal of a Trip to Africa," "Slave voyage notebook," and "Whydah slave trade." Also, there are two "Africa: miscellaneous" folders which include an essay on the commercial policy and history of the Gold Coast, along with quantitative data for the years 1820-1843 regarding the repatriation of African Americans to Liberia. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.K132 
 Extent:  6.75 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Africa -- Description and travel | Americans Abroad | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | Asia Minor -- Description and travel | Bills. | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | Colonization, repatriation | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 | Egypt -- Description and travel | Engravings. | Exploration | Exploration. | Explorers -- United States | Family Correspondence | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 | General Correspondence | Geometry -- Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | International Travel | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island | Journals (notebooks) | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- | Lectures | Letterbooks | Liberia -- Description and travel | Logbooks | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions | Mexico -- Description and travel | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching | North Carolina -- Description and travel | Northwest Passage | Notebooks | Obstetrics | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Hospitals | Philadelphia. General Hospital | Plantations | Receipts | Silhouettes | Sketches. | Slave trade -- Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States. Navy | Watercolors 
3Author:  Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851Requires cookie*
 Title:  Samuel George Morton Papers     
 Dates:  1819-1850 
 Abstract:  Morton's diary, made on a trip that be made to the West Indies, records observations made on many of the Islands on life, work, agriculture, slavery, and derogatory comments on the native inhabitants. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.M843 
 Extent:  2.25 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  African American | Archaeology | Aymara Indians | Bachman, John (1790-1874) | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Barbados -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Botany | Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853 | Conrad, Timothy Abbott, 1803-1877 | Cooper, William, 1776-1848 | Craniology. | Craniometry | Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 | DeKay, James Ellsworth, 1792-1 | Diaries. | Doornik, Jacob Elisa, 1777-183 | Education | Egyptology. | Exploration. | Fermine Gomez Farias | French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877 | General Correspondence | Geology | Gliddon, George R.(George Robi | Gomez, Jose Justo Gomez de la | Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Pr | Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 | Indians of North America -- Kentucky | Indians of North America -- Massachusetts | Indians of North America -- Mississippi | Indians of North America -- Ohio | Indians of North America -- Physical characteristics | Indians of North America -- Rhode Island | Indians of North America -- Tennessee | Indians of South America -- Peru | Indians of South America -- Physical characteristics | International Travel | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 | Medicine | Mineralogy | Miscegenation | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Natural history | Naumkeag Indians | Ornithology | Paleontology | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Pentland, Joseph Barclay | Phrenology | Race | Race, race relations, racism | Rush, William, 1756-1833 | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Skull. | Slavery -- Barbados | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) | Watercolors