Primary Source Citations
All of the items in this digital exhibit are from Florida State University's Special Collections and Archives. Without them, this project would not have been possible. Below are the citations for these materials.
United States Navy Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the twenty-sixth ultimo, sundry documents relating to the destruction of the Negro fort in East Florida in the month of July, 1816. Washington: E. de Krafft, 1819. Digital copy obtained courtesy of FSU Special Collections and Archives, FSU Libraries. Available at: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/fs00000261.jpg
“1819 Bill of Sale,” 1819, Hollingsworth Papers, Box 513, Folder 3, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“United State Senate Vote regarding Slavery in Territorial Florida,” 1822, Slavery Papers, Box 157, Folder 3, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Papers of conveyance of land and enslaved people, 1832-1844,” 1832-1844, El Destino and Chemonie Plantation Papers, Box 516, Folder 2, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Lists of names of enslaved people sold at public auction and prices obtained, 1844,” 1844, El Destino and Chemonie Plantation Papers, Box 516, Folder 3, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Quitclaim (deed of sale),” 1848, Slavery Papers, Box 157, Folder 1, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Bill of Sale,” 1852, Dr. F.A. Byrd Papers, Box 516, Folder 3, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Estate Division of slaves,” 1858, Roderick Kirkpatrick Shaw Estate Division of Slaves, Box 1805, Folder 1, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Whitfield Notebook,” 1859-1864, Whitfield Notebook, Box 517, Folder 1, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Articles of Agreement,” 1871, Winthrop Family Papers, Box 504, Folder 3, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Sharecropping Contracts,” 1911-1915, Van Brunt Business Records, Box 1, Item 1, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“R.F. Van Brunt Store Day Book,” 1911, Van Brunt Business Records, Box 1, Item 2, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
“Leon County Free Public Schools,” 1845-1942, Susan Bradford Eppes Papers, Box 682, Folder 4, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.
Annie Mae Macon, OHPC 0335, December 2, 1993, Reichelt Oral History Collection, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida
Ronald Rentz, OHPC 0057, February 28, 2007, Reichelt Oral History Collection, Special Collections & Archives, FSU Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida