Post-Slavery / Gradual Emancipation

For context:

Interactive exhibit about formerly enslaved people in Salem from Salem Maritime National Historic Site: Pathways In Freedom (created by Dr. Bethany Jay and Lindsay Randall)

Rose’s Obituary (accompanying primary source) Death Notice for Rose Derby, Essex Register, June 3, 1809

1818 Indenture Post-Slavery

Lucy O. Voice Indenture in Gloucester

(Cape Ann Museum Unfolding Histories; rights holder, Gloucester City Hall)

Found- https://wayback.archive-it.org/11179/20181018195819/http://onlineexhibitions.capeannmuseum.org/s/unfoldinghistories/item/494

1819 Warning Out

Letter from Salem Overseers of the Poor to Gloucester Overseers of the Poor

(Cape Ann Museum, Unfolding Histories; rights holder Gloucester City Hall)

Found- https://wayback.archive-it.org/11179/20181018195719/http://onlineexhibitions.capeannmuseum.org/s/unfoldinghistories/item/496

1831 Property Ownership Deed

Charles Richardson and Olive Richardson, deed of ownership in Gloucester

(Cape Ann Museum, Unfolding Histories; rights holder Essex Historical Society)

Found- https://wayback.archive-it.org/11179/20181018195824/http://onlineexhibitions.capeannmuseum.org/s/unfoldinghistories/item/462

Property Ownership

Juno Larcom and family in Beverly Set at Liberty, (provides context and attributed sources), Historic Beverly

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