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Former slave Catherine Ferguson 1774-1854 devotes her life to neglected...
When former slave Catherine Ferguson, a New York City woman devoted to Christian education & the care of orphans, died in 1854, her death prompted this obituary written by Lewis Tappan, an eminent...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1763 c John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner Sargent) San Fran Fine Arts
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Newspaper - Runaway Slaves - Carders, Spinners, Weavers, & Knitters
.Virginia Gazette (Hunter), Williamsburg, November 7, 1754.RAN away...a Mulatto Wench, named Molly, about 26 Years of Age, of a middle Stature, long Visage, and freckled, has a drawling Speech, a down...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1763 c John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. Nathaniel Allen (Sarah Sargnet) Minneapolis Inst of Arts
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About slave Jenny, the good spinster...
Robert Carter, Letter to Clement Brooke of the Baltimore Iron Works. 11 November 1776.Description: Item is a letter and an invoice. Of interest is reference made to Jenny. The "Negroe Woman" is on...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1763 e John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Elizabeth Byles Mrs. Gawen Brown MFA Houston
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The Role of Male & Female Slaves in the 18C & 19C American economy
African peoples were captured & transported to the Western Hemisphere to work. Most European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th - 19th century were dependent on enslaved African...
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Benjamin Franklin's 1745 Advice on chosing a partner "Prefer old Women to...
Robert Feke (American artist, 1707-1752) Young Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) c. 1746June 25, 1745My dear Friend,I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and...
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Marrying in 1750 Pennsylvania & a glimpse at unmarried persons "merry-making"
From Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754 (Philadelphia, 1898).Gottlieb Mittelberger traveled to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1750, on...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1763 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Mrs. John Scoally (Mercy Greenleaf) pvt
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1765 Jeremiah Theus 1716-1774 Mary Cuthbert Mrs James Nat Gal Art encore
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Timothy Dwight's Journal of Madam Knight 1704 or 1824?
.Sarah Kemble Knight’s (1666-1727) reported journal of a horseback journey from Boston to New York in 1704-05 was published in 1825, by Theodore Dwight (1797-1866), one of the Hartford Wits. An actual...
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Free Black Men and Women in Maryland
In Church. The Illustrated London NewsFrom the 17C on there was a growing free black population in Maryland. This population grew quickly in the antebellum years. African Americans were usually...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1763 John Singleton Copley 1738-1815 Sarah Tyler Mrs Samuel Phillips Savage
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Rare African American portraits connected to Philadlphia's 1st Mayor
Franklin Street (Philadelphia artist) Charles Montier (1818–1905) 1841Franklin Street (Philadelphia artist) Elizabeth Brown Montier (1820–c. 1858) The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses an extremely...
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Portrait of 18C American Woman
1763 William Johnston 1732-1772 Mrs Thomas Mumford VI Brooklyn
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Home-bred American fashions or taste A-La-Mode??
Fashion Before Ease. Just as British American colonials were recognizing that they were developing into a far different society than the hereditary and aristocratic world of the mother country, they...
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