Abolitionists.
Subject
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Rogers Crandall papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2628
Scope and content
Civil War letters by Crandall of the 23rd New York Volunteers in Virginia to cousins in Alfred, New York, describe the battles of Fredericksburg and Rappahannock Station, hostility of Southern women, black children in camp, a black camp meeting, the Virginia countryside and the laziness of its inhabitants; he also comments on the draft, the performance of McClellan and Burnside, praises Lincoln, and criticizes the abolitionists. Also included is a pamphlet commemorating the 30th reunion of...
Dates:
1861-1912,-1861-1863 (bulk)
Emily Howland miscellany
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065191201]
Identifier: 3710
Scope and content
Miscellaneous manuscript and printed items regarding Emily Howland, including programs, photograph, and papers written about her by Miles R. Jacobs. Also some personal items of Jacobs concerning France.
Dates:
1923-1976,-1923-1954 (bulk)
Emily Howland papers
Collection
Identifier: 2681
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates:
1797-1938.
Letter from Dyer Foote to Ben Johnson
Collection
Identifier: 8941
Content Description
Letter from Dyer Foote in Elmira, New York to Ben Johnson of Ithaca, New York, discussing the Whig election and mentioning Black voters. "I have seen our abolition friends and find that they are glad of the opportunity to do all they can. We have about eleven or twelve African voters they will be attended to and go right. Now if I was placed where you are I should try to do something in Madison County. Langdon says he has some friends there that he would write to if it was thought best. Our...
Dates:
1837-05-24
Lyman A. Spalding papers
Collection
Identifier: 522
Abstract
Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.
Dates:
1811-1864 (bulk)
Sea-weeds collected on the British coast, presented to the Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar. Collected by W. & M. A.
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924078878232]
Identifier: 6364
Scope and content
30 leaves, 20 of them with delicately mounted sea weed specimens with mss. descriptions, poetry, religious sentiments interspersed. Leeds:N.d., after 1853.
Dates:
1853; Undated