Slavery--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Constitutional law--United States
Undated pledge of moneys to be paid to Lysander Spooner for "a review of Judge Kane's late decision, that the U.S. Courts have no constitutional right to punish for contempt without trial by jury." Signed by several prominent abolitionists,...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Ohio--Cleveland; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated January 4, 1848, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing Bradburn's editorial position at the paper [The Pioneer] and other abolitionist news.
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a seven-page letter dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his...
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a four-page letter dated March 23, 1854, from Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Richard Hildreth to Charles D. Cleveland, responding to Cleveland's defense of his motives in...
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a four-page letter dated February 11, 1854, from Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson to Charles D. Cleveland, responding to a letter that Cleveland had sent to the Commonwealth to be...
Seven-page letter and envelope dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his dismay at the negative tone of their...
Two-page letter and envelope dated January 29, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May, New Jersey, to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, describing his travel to New Jersey.
Three-page letter and envelope dated February 26, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May, New Jersey, to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, discussing a letter received by him from Charles D. Cleveland regarding financial support for Drayton...
Two-page letter dated April 5, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner, discussing Drayton's correspondence with Charles D. Cleveland.
One-page letter and envelope dated August 10, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, discussing his health, plans to travel to Boston, and asking for funds.
One-page letter and envelope dated September 5, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, regarding his health and noting that he has "never heard a word from friend Cleveland sicne you Boston...
Four-page letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay detailing the escape of slave [Henry 'Box' Brown] from Richmond [Virginia] to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] via overland express in a box. M'Kim requests that Gay refrain from publishing the story, and...
Receipt for wages paid to Oliver Johnson "for services performed in the Office of the Liberator in 1839" from Francis Jackson. Also signed in pencil "M & W Johnson" and note on bottom left "(Genl. Fessenden's pledge)."
Minutes from the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts A. S. [Anti-Slavery] Society, December 27, 1888 [1838], in which Henry B. Stanton is appointed General Agent of the Society.
Manuscript letter in the hand of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison, for publication to advertise a "mass celebration" of the anniversary of the emanciaption of 800,000 slaves to the West India Islands [undated, but probably 1846]. On back in red, "Insert this...
Twenty-five page manuscript letter by George W. Putnam addressed to the Agency Committee of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Soceity, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Samuel Philbrick, for publication in The Liberator, defending his...
List of donors, most by name and some with their place of residence [probably to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] during a May 29, 1839 meeting at Charden [?] Street.
List of 24 Massachusetts citizens who agreed to take slaves "let against their names." Includes the number of slaves for each person. On back, a proposition for the erection of a "spacious hall in which free decision may be had," with subscription...
Unsigned manuscript letter from "the friends of William Lloyd Garrison," soliciting donations with which they hope to buy him a home. Names trustees Ellis Gray Loring, Francis Jackson and Samuel Philbrick.
