Catalog of Manuscript Collections
MSS 119: Afro-American Collection, 1688-1896
Creators: John Quincy Adams; John Warner Barber
Extent: 150 items
Description: Collection consists of miscellaneous papers and documents relating to blacks in New Haven, slavery, the antislavery movement, the status of free blacks, and the Amistad case. Included are an 1841 letter from John Quincy Adams to Lewis Tappan about the Amistad captives and bills of sale for slaves in Connecticut.
Research Topics: Slaves and free blacks in New Haven; anti-slavery movement in New Haven; Amistad case
