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Newspaper clippings, "Sale of Negroes" and African American studies, 1860, 1953-1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Maine African American Archive collection is a set of research files, collected by Bowdoin College Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Emeritus Randolph Stakeman, that offer historical, sociological, and genealogical information on African Americans in Maine and New England. The collection includes census data, genealogy materials, and lists of names, principally centered on population studies. There are typescripts, copies of articles, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera concerning slavery, abolitionism, and African American life that Stakeman participated in or collected for his own research. A large portion of the material are facsimiles or photocopies of original texts. The collection itself is not a composite set of African American history in Maine, rather the material offers a narrow window of research into what a single historian collected and created from 1975 to 2001.

Dates

  • Creation: 1860, 1953-1989

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions.

Extent

From the Collection: 0.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 1 ovsz folder)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository

http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/index.shtml
Contact:
3000 College Station
Brunswick Maine 04011 USA
(207) 725-3288

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