Diaries and Letters in the Library Stacks: 1700-1799

One of the earliest documents written by an African residing in coastal West Africa predating the arrival of British missionaries and officials in the mid-19th century. Antera Duke was a leader and merchant in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar.

Includes Madam Knight's journal: A woman travels to New York, 1704

Plantation life in South Carolina.

The letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765-1775 -- Three voyages to the west coast of Africa, 1881-1884 / John Langdon.

Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.

Documents dating from 1747-1763.

Abigaill Franks's letters are among the earliest extant by a woman in colonial New York City. They are also the earliest known letters by a Jewish woman in British America and probably the western colonies. Thirty-five letters survive, all written to her son Naphtali between 1733 and 1748

Includes Survey journal from Detroit to Michillimackinac in the year 1766-67. Mississippi River Valley explorations.