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Abolitionists -- United States.

 Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4625
Scope and content

Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.

Dates: 1843-1860.

Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4681
Abstract

The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.

Dates: 1728-1973.

May Anti-Slavery manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4601
Abstract

Consists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University.

Dates: 1749 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1880

Portfolio of antislavery letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065340147]
Identifier: 6416
Scope and content Manuscript and printed letters written by and to British and American abolitionists, including clippings of printed letters from Harriet Martineau to the National Anti-slavery standard and other newspapers. Subjects include the controversy between Martineau and the Standard, and Martineau's attitude to the approach of the Civil War. Correspondents include Harriet Martineau, Sarah Pugh, Auguste Langet, Maria Weston Chapman, and Maria's daughter Anne Chapman. Also included is a letter from...
Dates: 1859-1946,-1859-1861 (bulk)