{"id":349934,"date":"2025-12-18T18:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/a-summer-pages-experience-past-is-present\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:40:42","slug":"a-summer-pages-experience-past-is-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=349934","title":{"rendered":"A Summer Page\u2019s Experience \u2013 Past is Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Recently, I had the privilege of making a display that is now exhibited in the American Antiquarian Society reading room, as you enter through the main glass doors of Antiquarian Hall. My exhibit focuses on manumissions in 1800s America. Originally, I planned to highlight the freedom suit as a legal means of resistance to slavery. I had a hard time finding enough primary-source materials for display, and I mostly found secondary sources covering the topic in the AAS catalog. So, I decided to broaden my search to look at the different ways that enslaved people could free themselves. Enslaved people had three main ways of obtaining their freedom: escape, manumission, and freedom suits. Since I was having a hard time finding material related to the latter, I decided to look for manumissions and related documents instead. I found that in AAS\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=272098\">Slavery in the United States Collection<\/a>,\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> AAS has a few manumissions that have quite intriguing stories. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559731&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19694\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19694\" src=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-1008x1536.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-1344x2048.jpg 1344w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_1-scaled.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Amanda Holmes manumission from the Slavery in the United States Collection.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">One <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">m<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">anumission<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> involves<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> a wom<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">n named Amanda Holmes, who was enslaved by William G. Elliot, Jr. in St. Louis<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> Missouri. The document states that she was manumitted for \u201cgood and sufficient reasons<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">\u201d <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">This document, dated 7 July 1845, gave Holmes her freedom one year before Dred Scott first filed his freedom suit in 1846 in the state of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">Missouri.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> Scott\u2019s case would not be decided until 1857, in the notorious Supreme Court decision in <\/span><\/span><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">Dred Scott v. Sandford<\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW168788405 BCX2\">A<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW168788405 BCX2\">lso<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> note about <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">Holmes<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">tory<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> is that five years after she <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">gained <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">freedom, she <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">purchased<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> her <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">husband\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> freedom for <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">thirty<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> dollars. The bill of sale for his purchase is dated 29 January 1850<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">\u2014<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">for the sale of \u201cone negro named William Holmes\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">\u2014<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\">transfers<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW168788405 BCX2\"> ownership from Colonel Adam D. Stewart and wife Mary to Amanda Holmes, now a free woman of color.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"more-19693\"\/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19697\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19697\" src=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-768x1102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-1071x1536.jpg 1071w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-1428x2048.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/holmes_2-scaled.jpg 1785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(William Holmes bill of sale from the Slavery in the United States Collection.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another manumission of note in this collection was signed by Nicholas Davies (c. 1708-1794) and witnessed by seven others. The document liberates twenty of his slaves and their children. It was recorded on 23 June 1794, at the Bedford County Court House in Virginia. Nicholas was a successful land dealer in what is sometimes referred to as \u201cmiddle Virginia.\u201d [1]<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Through his deeds he ended up freeing approximately fifty-one more of the people whom he had enslaved throughout his life. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19698\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19698\" src=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3-875x1024.jpg 875w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3-768x899.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3-1313x1536.jpg 1313w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3-1750x2048.jpg 1750w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/davies_3.jpg 1911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Manumission signed by Nicholas Davies from the Slavery in the United States collection.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also chose to include in the display William Griffith\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=298316\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Scrivener\u2019s Guide <\/span><\/i><\/a>(1818)<span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which provided general advice for all sorts of legal matters. One section covers the legal requirements and filing procedures for manumissions and even includes an example of what such a document might look like. Two items in the exhibit are broadsides issued by the city of New York in the early 1800s: a blank form for <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=421681\">recording a manumission<\/a>, and a blank <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=421678\">form of registration<\/a> of proof of a person\u2019s free status. Lastly, I have included two pamphlets from manumission societies in <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=257208\">North Carolina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=344889\">New York<\/a>. Manumission societies worked to find legal avenues for enslaved people to become free and worked to convince the wider public of the evils of slavery. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19699\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19699\" src=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-615x1024.jpg 615w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-768x1279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-922x1536.jpg 922w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-1230x2048.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ny_4-scaled.jpg 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(New York manumission form. <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.mwa.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=344889\">Catalog Record<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">While <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">some <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">enslaved people were able to obtain their freedom through manumission by their enslavers<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> as Andrew Fede argues in his book <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"><em>Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United States South<\/em> [3]<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> \u201c<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">a<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">n individual master\u2019s decision to free one or several slaves is not necessar<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">il<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">y evidence that the master harbored <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">\u2018<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">an unspoken (or perhaps unconscious) anti-slavery sentiment.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> Although some masters freed<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> all their slaves during their lifetime<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">, or after their death<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">, as an expression of the<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">ir<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> opposition to slavery, the act<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> of others who freed <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">\u2018<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">a tiny minority<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> of<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> especially <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">favored<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> slaves might just <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">as<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\"> accurately be taken as the ultimate bestowal <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">\u201d <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">(<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">Fede, 2<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">)<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169125117 BCX2\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I had a great time finding materials in the collection for this exhibit. I considered many other fascinating primary-source <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">documents to <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">documents to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> better frame the time period \u2014 particularly for the context surrounding the Amanda Holmes manumission, just one year prior to and in the same state as the Dred Scott case. This context could have added a greater level of understanding of the legal climate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> but I ultimately chose not to include these documents in order to better maintain cohesiveness in this relatively small exhibit. However, if you are interested in learning more, I recommend consulting some of the excellent secondary sources on the subject; a number are available right here at AAS. (Apologies in advance if any are still checked out to me!) Lastly, if you do come into Antiquarian Hall, for any reason, please be sure to check out my exhibit in person. I hope you\u2019ll like it!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/research.colonialwilliamsburg.org\/todayIn1770s\/index.cfm?SelectedMonth=02&amp;SelectedDay=18\">Today in the 1770s: February 18.<\/a>\u201d Colonial Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p>[2] \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/manumissionproject.omeka.net\/items\/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=93&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Nicholas+Davies\">Nicholas Davies.<\/a>\u201d <i>Virginia Manumission Records Database<\/i>, Liberty University,<\/p>\n<p>[3] Fede, Andrew. <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Roadblocks_to_Freedom.html?id=4kx5tgAACAAJ\"><i>Roadblocks to Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the United States South<\/i><\/a>. Quid Pro Quo Books, 2011, p. 2.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19696 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/pastispresent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/CheryBorodine-2025-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\"\/><\/a><strong>Borodine Chery<\/strong> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">is a rising senior at Clark University, returning to the role of AAS summer page for a second summer. She is majoring in history and political science with a minor in philosophy. She has interned at the Salisbury Mansion as a docent and has served as a collections intern for the Ecotarium. Her honor\u2019s thesis in the fall will be about freedom suits and legal resistance to slavery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had the privilege of making a display that is now exhibited in the American Antiquarian Society reading room, as you enter through the main glass doors of Antiquarian Hall. My exhibit focuses on manumissions in 1800s America. Originally, I planned to highlight the freedom suit as a legal means of resistance to slavery. 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