FINDING AIDS AND HANDLISTS BY SUBJECT

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND BLACK

The Special Collections Library has begun mounting selected finding aids on the Web, representing only a small portion of the processed collections. These Special Collections Library finding aids were tagged in Encoded Archival Description (SGML) and exported in XML-compliant HTML versions.

Access the University of Texas at Austin's WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) for information about literary copyrights.

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~AFRICAN-AMERICANS ~

• Slavery Documents Collection, 1836-1876 (bulk 1839-1854) [HCLA]
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  Receipts for the sale of slaves, apprentice indentures, certificates of authentication, receipt against a deed of trust, receipt for the sale of land, and one partial, illegible receipt (perhaps an indenture for separation) from the Gatlin/Conley family of Tennessee.

~BLACK WRITERS ~

• Vivian Virtue Papers, 1938-2000 [RB&M]
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  Correspondence, original works, publications, translations, broadcasts, newspaper clippings, research, and photographs of the Jamaican poet, translator, and broadcaster, and son-in-law of black poet Claude McKay.
  

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