Two-page letter from the Antislavery Office, Philadelphia, giving notification for an Antislavery convention to be held in Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] on December 19, 1837, with the intent of organizing a State Antislavery Society. Signed by...
Four-page letter from Lewis Tappan of New York [City] to Theodore D. Weld in Cincinatti, Ohio, regarding Antislavery demonstrations at Lane Seminary that outraged administrators Lyman Beecher and Franklin Youngs Vail. Includes mention of several...
Four-page memorial from a Convention of the Friends of the Negro addressed to His Excellency Silas H. Jenison, Governor of Vermont regarding the abolition of slavery in the United States. Signed on behalf of the Convention by Thomas Clarkson,...
Four-page memorial from a Convention of the Friends of the Negro addressed to His Excellency William H. Seward, Governor of New York, regarding the abolition of slavery in the United States. Signed on behalf of the Convention by Thomas Clarkson,...
Four-page letter from Lewis Tappan in Harrisburgh [Pennsylvania] to Theodore D. Weld in New York regarding abolitionist acitvity in Pennsylvania, including the adoption of an antislavery Constitution with Executive Committees in Philadelphia and...
Abolitionists--United States; Abolitionists--New York; Antislavery movements--United States; Antislavery movements--New York
Four-page letter from Theodore D. Weld on the Erie Canal Packet Boat Oneida near Schenectady [New York] to Lewis Tappan in New York City regarding the business of the Antislavery Society.
Abolitionists--United States; Abolitionists--New York; Antislavery movements--United States; Antislavery movements--New York
Four-page letter from Theodore D. Weld to his sister [probably Sarah Grimke] advising on antislavery rehtoric, particularly in relation women's rights.
Four-page letter from Theodore D. Weld to his sister [probably Sarah Grimke] regarding the advisory contents of his previous letter, also dated September 6, 1837. Addressed to both Sarah and Angelina Grimke in Boston [Massachussets].
Antislavery movements; Abolitionists--New York; American Anti-Slavery Society
Four-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Theodore D. Weld in New York City regarding the appointments of Brother Wright [probably Theodore S. Wright] to the position of Editor and Brother Bring to the position of Secretary in...
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...
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York; Antislavery movements--New York (State)--New York
Letter from Francis Jackson of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to Lewis Tappan, Samuel E. Cornish, and Simon S. Jocelyn [in New York City], listing approximately 85 members from Massachusetts who will attend the 4th anniversary of the...
Three-page printed circular letter from the American Anti-Slavery Society, soliciting donations that will support the "gratuitous distribution" of anti-slavery publications in pro-slavery areas. Followed by manuscript note from H. B. Stanton to...
Four-page letter and envelope from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner in Worcester [Massachusetts] dated April 2, 1850, in which Smith responds to Spooner's accusations of copyright infringement.
Slavery--Emancipation--United States; Slavery--Philadelphia; Slaves--Philadelphia; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter from John Parrish of Philadelphia to William Dilwyn regarding the American Antislavery movement. Includes mention of several slaveholders who manumitted their own slaves, as well as several Quakers involved in the abolition of...
Four-page letter from Abby Kelley of Lynn [Massachusetts] to Angelina E. Grimke of New York City regarding the abolition of slavery. Includes mention of lectures given by H. B. Stanton, William Lloyd Garrison, and George Thompson at the Society of...
Four-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Theodore D. Weld in Saratoga Springs [New York] in response to inquiry regarding antislavery lecturers and the disbursement of his property. Smith suggests two ministers by the name of...
Three-page letter from Theodore D. Weld in Belleville [New Jersey] to Reverend R. J. Judd in Brooklyn [New York] to ask for a loan on behalf of brother Kanasales [?]. Describes Weld's own financial difficulties.
Antislavery movements--New York; Abolitionists--New York
One leaf with two letters of correspondence between Elizur Wright and Chales Marriott in Hudson, New York, regarding a convention for the establishment of a New York State Antislavery Society.
