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["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 2]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on the 14th amendment, race, immigration, and transformation in the 21st century led by Curtis King on January 8th, 2011. The footage shows tables set up with food being served to members of the community from across DFW in education, pastoral, public service, and civic backgrounds. This tape focuses on the economics of immigration and the phrase "immigration is the new slavery".

Date: January 8, 2011

Duration: 58 minutes 55 seconds

Creator: King, Curtis

Item Type: Video

Location: 32.774281 -96.797546

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Abolition and slavery; speech in the House of Representatives, February 3, 1849, in reply to Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana, on abolition and slavery.

"In reply to the Honorable Richard W. Thompson (Richard Wiggington) on abolition and slavery."

Date: February 3, 1849

Creator: Brown, Charles, 1797-1883

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

[Account of Wallace Family History]

This is a document from the Charles B. Moore Collection. In this document, Moore discusses the Wallace family education and military history. Moore states that most of the family went to school with slaves or with freed African Americans.Moving from the family's educational history, he notes the wars that the Wallace men fought in, details the campaign to North Georgia to fight the Indians, and recalls an incident which occurred travelling to Georgia on the Mississippi River. Israel Moore, Joh… more

Date: unknown

Creator: Moore, Charles B. Moore

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

An act prohibiting slavery : [message from the Executive to the House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska].

An act prohibiting slavery in the territory of Nebraska

Date: 1861

Creator: Black, Samuel W., 1818-1862.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

An address delivered before the Pro-slavery convention of the state of Missouri, held in Lexington, July 13, 1855, on domestic slavery, as examined in the light of Scripture, of natural rights, of civil government, and the constitutional power of Congress.

No Description Available.

Date: July 13, 1855

Creator: Shannon, James, 1799-1859.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of Gen. Sam Houston, at the union mass meeting, Austin, Texas, on the 22nd of September, 1860.

No Description Available.

Date: 1860

Creator: Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of Hon. Albert G. Brown, before the members of the legislature of the state of Mississippi, November 8, 1859.

Text of a speech given by Albert G. Brown to the Mississippi state legislature regarding his opinions on slavery and the politics of the North, versus the South.

Date: November 8, 1859

Creator: Brown, Albert Gallatin, 1813-1880

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to his constituents.

No Description Available.

Date: February 13, 1851

Creator: Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of Hon. W.L. Harris, Commissioner from the State of Mississippi, delivered before the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, on Monday, Dec. 17th, 1860.

No Description Available.

Date: 1860

Creator: Harris, W. L.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of honorable members of Congress, the state of Louisiana, to the convention.

No Description Available.

Date: January 14, 1861

Creator: Slidell, John, 1793-1871; Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884; Landrum, John M. (John Morgan), 1815-1861 & Davidson, T. G.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of Judge Peter W. Gray, to the Citizens of Houston, on the African Slave Trade.

Printed text of a speech given in 1859 regarding slavery in the United States.

Date: 1859~

Creator: Gray, Peter W., 1819-1874

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Address of Robert W. Johnson to the citizens of Arkansas : Washington, January 29, 1850.

No Description Available.

Date: 1850

Creator: Johnson, Robert Ward, 1814-1879

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

The address of southern delegates in Congress to their constituents.

No Description Available.

Date: 1849

Creator: Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of the committee appointed by the Friends of Southern Rights to the people of Mississippi, December 10th, 1850. : published by order of the Central Southern Rights Association.

No Description Available.

Date: December 10, 1850

Creator: Clayton, A. M.; Barton, Roger.; Stewart, T. Jones; McRae, John J., 1815-1868.; Clifton, C. R.; Smith, C. P. et al.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of the Committee of the Mississippi convention to the southern states.

No Description Available.

Date: 1849

Creator: Mississippi. Convention, 1849.

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address of the Hon. Charles L. Scott, of California, to his constituents, on the constitutional right of secession.

No Description Available.

Date: 1861

Creator: Scott, Charles L. 1827-1899. (Charles Lewis)

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

Address on the annexation of Texas, and the aspect of slavery in the United States, in connection therewith: delivered in Boston November 14 and 18, 1845

Pamphlet from Texana Collection

Date: January 1, 1845

Creator: Phillips, Stephen C.

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Admission of California : remarks of Mr. Cass, of Michigan, in reply to the reference to his opinions on the alleged sovereign power of Congress over the territories by Mr. Berrien, of Georgia ; delivered in the Senate of the United States, August 12, 1850.

No Description Available.

Date: August 12, 1850

Creator: Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: Schreiner University

[Affidavit regarding seizure of enslaved people]

An affidavit—related to a legal dispute between enslavers William R. Smith and John W. Cloud ("Smith v. Cloud")—by Sheriff William McMaster regarding his seizure of Grace, an enslaved woman, and her three children.

Date: January 2, 1844

Creator: McMaster, William

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Africans & African Americans for Enslavement Reparations]

Flyer discussing the argument for enslavement reparations, a topic of a public discussion hosted on October 16, 1999 at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters.

Date: October 1999

Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections