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ACQUISITION SPOTLIGHT
Northup Lawyer Tells His Own Story
Diaries of John Pamplin Waddill
gift of Elizabeth H. Brazelton, 2014.0356
The Collection recently received three volumes of a diary kept by central Louisiana lawyer and politician John Pamplin Waddill (1813-1855). The diaries are a generous gift from Waddill’s direct descendant Elizabeth
H.	Brazelton.
Born in Williamson County, Tennessee, Waddill moved permanently to Louisiana in 1838. He became a state senator in 1848, was a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention in 1852, and helped secure the freedom of Solomon Northup in 1853. Northup, a free black man from Saratoga, New York, had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in central
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CORRECTIONS
In the winter 2015 issue of THNOC Quarterly, the Acquisition Spotlight "Lives in Motion" stated that John Pemberton was Frangjise Fernandez’s uncle. In fact, he was her cousin. The same article also dated the photograph of Royes Fernandez and Jeanne Fernandez Bruno as being from 1944 to 1945; the photograph was actually taken in 1947. The article stated that Bruno danced with Lelia Haller's New Orleans Opera House Association; Bruno danced in the New Orleans Opera House Association’s ballet company under the guidance of ballet mistress and choreographer Lelia Haller. The article misspelled the name of Pierre Charles Blanchin's liquor firm; it should have been Blanchin and Giraud. It also stated that their father Emanuel Paul Fernandez taught ballroom dancing in their uptown home. He did not. Last, the article stated that Royes Fernandez remained a soloist with American Ballet Theater until his retirement. He actually retired as a premier danseur, the highest level of a male dancer.
Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
London: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1854
(first British edition)
72-87-L.8
Engraving of Charity Hospital, where Northup was hospitalized by slave trader Theophilus Freeman during a bout of smallpox
by Samuel Smith Kilburn, from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion April 16, 1859 1959-204.4
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Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
by William Wells Brown Boston: Antislavery Office, 1847 207 4.0199
Entry for T. Freeman, “negro trader” at 13 Moreau Street
from New-Orleans Annual and Commercial Directory New Orleans: J. J. Calberthwaite and Company, 1844
The Historic New Orleans Collection, gift of the Gene Eppley Library, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 74-99-L
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