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Henry
P. Slaughter Collection
1713-1964 (bulk dates 1792-1959)
24.5 linear feet
NOTE: A paper copy of the finding aid, with container
list, is available at the Atlanta University CenterArchives
for
in-house consultation and may be obtained for
a fee.
Henry Procter Slaughter (b. 1871 d. 1958) was a typographer
and journalist by occupation but is best known as
a bibliophile and collector, an avocation to which
he devoted most of his adult life and a considerable
amount of his income. He was a contemporary of a
cadre of Black bibliophiles including Arthur Schomburg,
John Bruce, Charles Douglass Martin, Daniel Alexander
Murray, and John Cromwell. Leaders in the American
Negro Academy, during a 1915 meeting they established
the Negro Book Collectors Exchange, of which Slaughter
became president. Slaughter's collection was highly
regarded as one of the best and largest libraries
of materials by and about Black people. Upon recommendations
from the staff of the Library of Congress and Howard
University, Slaughter would permit researchers to
visit his home to use his collection. The collection
numbered over 10,000 volumes and filled three floors
and the basement of his townhouse in Washington,
D.C. Concerned for the safety and preservation of
his collection, Slaughter sold the collection to
Atlanta University in 1946. The books from the Slaughter
collection are cataloged among the holdings in Archives
and Special Collections. |
The Henry P. Slaughter
Collection described here consist of historical
documents such
as sermons, speeches, reports, correspondence,
autographs, poetry, legal papers, pamphlets,
certificates, scrapbooks, photographs, political
cartoons, broadsides, and sheet music. Most
of the pamphlets and legal papers pertain
to slavery, the abolition of slavery, the
Civil War, and racial issues in the United
States, African countries, and British colonies.
A significant number of the photographs,
though unidentified, provide wonderful images
of portraiture, fashion and style from the
late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth
century. Among the many persons documented
in the collection are Harry T. Burleigh,
Paul Cuffe, Henri Christophe, Oscar De Priest,
Frederick Douglass, Alexandre Dumas, Angelina
Grimke, J. Rosamond Johnson, Toussaint L'Ouverture,
Arthur Schomburg, Charles Sumner, William
Still and Booker T. Washington. Of interest
are files on Masonic organizations that include
membership applications for the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows dating 1904-1907. In
addition there are a few folders of Slaughter's
personal papers such as letters, news clippings,
memorabilia and some dealers catalogs that
provide insight into his book collecting.
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