African American

African Americans have been coming to the Tri-State area as slaves and as freedmen as long as Americans have been coming to the area.  Their history is the Tri-States’ history.

Articles

Frederick Douglass – Orations in Dubuque

Frederick Douglass – Orations in Dubuque

Photographs & Images

LJTP 100.027 – African-American male – c.1860-1870

LJTP 100.024 – Abraham Lincoln collage with those who voted for the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Congress – 1865

LJTP 100.094 – Bilbrough Studio – African American – circa 1880

LJTP 100.190 – Galena Independents – Negro Mascot – 1890

LJTP 100.329 – Dubuque Climbers – c1922

LJTP 100.352.001 – African American CDV by LD Johnson – Vineland NJ – c1865

LJTP 100.369 – Tintype African American Woman – 1863

LJTP 100.429 – S. Root – cdv African American Woman – circa 1875

Letters & Documents

LJTP 200.045 – Cuban Slave Freedom Purchase – 1871

LJTP 200.048 – Cuban Slave Life Insurance Policy – 1856

LJTP 200.049 – Grinnell vs. Bogle Slave Sale Litigation- 1858

Newspapers & Periodicals

LJTP 300.012.003 – Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1857