18th CENTURY LEADERS



Benjamin Bannakers Almanac 1795 (Baltimore, 1795) Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.jpg

Benjamin Banneker to George Ellicott, October 13, 1789 Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.jpg

Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1791 Massachusetts Historical Society.jpg

Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, August 19, 1791 Massachusetts Historical Society1.jpg

Benjamin Rush, A Plan of a Peace Office, for the United States, in Bannekers Almanack (Philadelphia, 1793) Courtesy of the Library of Congres.jpg

Bickerstaffs Boston Almanack 1782, woodcut portrait of Phillis Wheatley, Boston, 1781 Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.jpg

Bill authorizing Paul Cuffee to take cargo to Sierra Leone, January 10, 1814. National Archives, Washington, DC.jpg

Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste du Sables Chicago property, May 1800 Original unlocated Ebony 26 (November 1970).jpg

Boston News Letter, July 30, 1761 Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.jpg

Captain Paul Cuffe, wood engraving by Mason and Maas after drawing by John Pole, 1812 Courtesy of the Library of Congress.jpg

Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State (Philadelphia, 1792) Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.jpg

From Jane Dunlap's Poems (Boston, 1771) Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.jpg

From Jane Dunlap's Poems (Boston, 1771) Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society1.jpg

From Jane Dunlap's Poems (Boston, 1771) Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society2.jpg

Henri Gregoire, An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes (Brooklyn, 1810) Courtesy of the Librar.jpg

John Paul Jones to Hector McNeill, not dated The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.jpg

Letter from Paul Cuffe to James Forten, 1816 New Bedford Free Public Library.jpg

List of passengers aboard Paul Cuffes Traveller, bound for Sierra Leone in 1815 New Bedford Free Public Library.jpg

Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, Liverpool Mercury, October 4to11, 1811 Courtesy of the Library of Congress.jpg

Obituary of Thomas Fuller, Columbian Centinel (Boston), December 1790 Courtesy of the Library of Congress.jpg

Paul Cuffes compass New Bedford Whaling Museum.jpg

Peter William, Jun, A Discount Delivered on The Death of Capt Paul Cuffe (New York, 1817) Courtesy of the Library of Congress.jpg

Petition of Paul Cuffe and Several poor Negros and Molattors of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the General Court, March 14, 1780 Massachusetts A.jpg

Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner, March 21, 1774 Massachusetts Historical Society.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, An Elegiac Poem on the Death of George Whitefield, broadside, 1770 The Library Company of Philadelphia.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, An Ode, On the Birth Day of Pompey Stockbridge Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, Letter and Verses presented to his Excellency Gen Washington, October 26, 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine, April 1776. The Histor.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, On the death of Mr Snider Seider, Murderd by Richardson, 1770 The Library Company of Philadelphia.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (London, 1773) Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (London, 1773) Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst1.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, To SM Scipio Moorhead a young African Painter from Poems on Various Subjects (London, 1773) Courtesy of the Library of Congr.jpg

Phillis Wheatley, To the University of Cambridge, 1767 Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.jpg

Proposals for Phillis Wheatleys Poems (London, 1773), Boston Censor, February 29, 1772 Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.jpg

Proposals for Printing by Subscription, A Collection of poems, wrote by Phillis, a Negro Girl , Boston Evening Post & General Advertiser, Octob.jpg

Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791 Courtesy of the Library of Congress..jpg

To the Publick, from Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects (London, 1773) Courtesy of the Library of Congress.jpg