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First Impressions of the New World
Louisiana in 1841. He later wrote Twelve Years a Slave, one of the most celebrated slave narratives of the 19th century. Waddill, whom Northup described as “a man of fine genius and noble impulses,” served as his lawyer in Avoyelles Parish.
Waddill’s first diary begins during his years as a law student at Kentucky’s Augusta College. He details his thoughts on national and party politics, phrenology, Andrew Jackson, the 1837 bank crash, and many other topics. He notes his departure to Louisiana on January 3, 1838, and his arrival nine days later at the Red River plantation home of his friend and patron, Thomas Hickman. The first volume ends with Waddill obtaining his law license and an account of his subsequent move to Marksville.
The second diary begins in May 1846 and ends in January 1852. Much of it is dedicated to coverage of the Mexican-American War and the involvement of central Louisiana troops in the fighting. Other topics addressed include his law practice, public health (outbreaks of cholera as well as yellow and scarlet fever), key Louisiana political figures, local development of railroads, and the “three ‘C’s of Avoyelles Parish: cotton, corn, and cane.” Waddill also documents his nomination and election as state senator for the Democratic Party. Planter Edwin Epps, made notorious as Northup’s brutal master in Twelve Years a Slave, is mentioned for the first time in this volume.
The third diary spans January 17, 1848, to September 2, 1853, and includes original poetry and a detailed autobiographical sketch filled with family history.
A fourth volume, covering the period in which he served as Solomon Northup’s lawyer, is now on display in the exhibition Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808-1865, alongside other objects related to Twelve Years a Slave. In 2016 this volume will travel to Washington, DC, where it will be exhibited at the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, before returning to The Collection to rejoin its companion volumes. —ERIN M. GREENWALD
Der Ander Theyl
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The first German-language edition of a seminal volume on the earliest French expedition to the New World, Der Ander Theyl, der Newlich Erfundenen Landtschafft Americae .... (The second part of the newly discovered landscape America), by Jacques Le Moyne, was published in 1591. A copy of this important work is an outstanding recent addition to THNOC’s materials on colonial history. Le Moyne (1533?—1588) was appointed artist to an expedition that sailed to Florida in April 1564. Arguably the first European artist to visit the New
World, Le Moyne recorded the lives and customs of the native peoples found in the North American southeast in his amazingly detailed watercolor*. These illustrations would later be engraved and published by Theodor De Bry '1528-1598) in the second volume of hi* work known as Grand Voyages. The first in the tciio. published in 1590, documented explorer Thomas Hariot’s account of the Knglish settlement at Roanoke, Virginia, in 1*85. To most of Europe, these volume* proentcd the first accurate account* and evcsrancs* depictions
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