| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 23 | Title: | Slavery in the United States: a narrative to the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man, who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a slave under various masters, and was one year in the Navy with Commandore Barney, during the late war; containing an account of the manners and usages of the planters and slaveholders of the South : a description of the condition and treatment of slaves
| | | | Creator: | Ball, Charles. | | | | | FisherMr | | | | | Ball, Charles. | | | | Publication: | J.T. Shryrock, I. Trescott & Co.], Western Publishers, Pittsburgh, Salem, Ohio,1854. | | | | Notes: | Prepared by a Mr. Fisher from the verbal narrative of Ball. cf. Introd. to New York edition of 1837. A later edition (New York, 1859) pub. under title: Fifty years in chains. | | | | Call #: | E444 B187D | | | | Extent: | [v]-vi, [9]-446 p. ; 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slavery -- Maryland | Slavery -- South Carolina | Slavery -- Georgia | Slaves -- United States -- Biography | Ohio imprints 1854
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 24 | Title: | Morris E. Meyer Papers
| | | | Creator: | Meyer, Morris e. | | | | Dates: | 1842-1939 | | | | Abstract: | Morris E. Meyer was a German Jew born in Hanover, Germany, in 1812. He emigrated to the United States, settled in Charleston, South Carolina, and became a citizen in 1844. He married Sarah Gertrude Oppenheim, a fourth generation member of a South Carolina Jewish-American family. About 1863 they moved to Camden, South Carolina, where he established himself as a merchant in the cotton trade, and was himself a slaveholder. During General William T. Sherman's sweep through Camden in 1865, Meyer lost his entire store of cotton and many household goods. After the Civil War, Meyer moved to New York City, where he engaged in the cotton trade and other ventures. Sometime after 1877, he and his family took up residence in Hanover, Germany, where he died in 1886. The collection consists of business and family records and correspondence, including cotton claims, records of cotton purchases, inventories, a presidential pardon for Meyer following the Civil War, and family passports. Of particular interest are slave transactions, 1850-1865, including bills of sale and mortgage bonds related to slave transactions by Morris Meyer 1850-1861, and a list of Meyer's household slaves in 1865. | | | | Call #: | MS 4728 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Meyer, Morris E., 1812-1886. | Myers family. | Jews -- South Carolina. | Jews -- New York. | Slaveholders -- South Carolina. | Slavery -- South Carolina. | Jewish businesspeople -- South Carolina. | Jewish businesspeople -- New York. | Jews, German -- South Carolina. | Jews, German -- New York. | Cotton trade -- South Carolina. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Jews. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects
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