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[Letter] 1911 November 13, West New Brighton, N.Y. [to] Carr
Carr, Edward Ellis, b. 1866
Markham sends a donation to Carr to help his mission to spread the "Episcopal Special." Markham also suggests having a Propaganda Fund, which could support The Christian Socialist.
Wagner College, Horrmann Library Edwin Markham Correspondence

The Crisis of the Revolution
Correspondence;
Page 65; Correpondences from Sir Henry Clinton and Benedict Arnold to George Washington; Two footnotes
Greenburgh Public Library, The Land and People of Greenburgh

[Certificate of judgment of the case of Phillis against Benjamin Tucker]
Depositions--Virginia; Trials (Assault and battery)--Virginia; Indians of North America--Virginia
Deposition regarding the case of Benjamin Tucker, charged with "trespass, assault, & battery and false imprisonment" of "Indians" Phillis, Phebe, Eaton, Patt, and Sarah. The testimony, signed by Walker Crutchfield, Clerk of Petersburg District...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Granville Sharp Collection, 1768-1803 (bulk 1768-1773)
Abolitionists--Great Britain; Blacks--Civil rights--Great Britain; Blacks--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain; Slave trade--Great Britain; Slavery--Law and Legislation--Great Britain; Armstrong, Aaron--Trials, litigation, etc.; Lewis,...
The collection includes three volumes, correspondence, and documents, 1768-1803, related to English abolitionist and reformer Granville Sharp. The first volume contains copies of letters and related documents, 1768-1773, sent to Granville Sharp,...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

In assembly, April 11, 1840. Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal. No. 306.
Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Title page of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This report includes both the...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

[Letter from L. Spooner to George Bradburn]
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Four-page letter dated March 5, 1846, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston, responding to cirticisms of his book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery] and discussing the concept of "free banking" in the United...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Letter from Lysander Spooner to George Bradburn]
Constitutional law--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Four-page letter dated January 19, 1846, from Lysander Spooner Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], asking Bardburn to solicit prominent names to sign a petition and then have the petition presented to the United...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Address Reported by Gerrit Smith to the Jerry Rescue Convention, held in Syracuse October 1, 1857
Jerry Rescue Convention; Antislavery movements--United States
Three-page printed "address" by Gerrit Smith presented at the Jerry Rescue Convention in Syracuse [New York]. On back, addressed to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, in Smith's hand.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Letter from Gerrit Smith to Lysander Spooner]
Libel and slander--New York (State)--New York
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated June 20, 1860, discussing a law suit involving [Royal] Phelps.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Manuscript draft of letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner to Gerrit Smith]
Libel and slander--New York (State)--New York
Seven-page manuscript draft of a letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated June 8, 1860, discussing a libel suit against several publishers.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855
Antislavery movements--United States
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

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