Archive: December 2023 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Julie Miller; (Year) 2023; (Month) December

An American Loyalist Family and the Meaning of Home: Rebecca Rawle Shoemaker’s Post-Revolutionary War Letters to Her Husband

December 21, 2023

A volume containing the letters of Quaker loyalist Rebecca Rawle Shoemaker to her husband, Samuel Shoemaker, who was exiled in England, describes the plight of Quakers and loyalists in Philadelphia after the Revolutionary War.

Posted in: Early America, Letters, War and Society, Women's & Gender History

Detail of the “Inventory of slaves stock &c. in the estate of the late Col. Richard Barnes,” May 15, 1804. John Thomson Mason Account Book, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

A New Look at an Old Ledger Reveals Stories About African-American History

December 7, 2023

Posted by: Julie Miller

A close look at an early nineteenth-century ledger kept by John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) to record the business of his Maryland plantation, “Montpelier,” reveals information about the lives of the enslaved and formerly enslaved people who lived and worked there.

Posted in: African American History, Early America

Refined by: (Author) Julie Miller; (Year) 2023; (Month) December