Quakers and Slavery

Haverford

The Religious Society of Friends was the first corporate body in Britain and North America to fully condemn slavery as both ethically and religiously wrong in all circumstances. It is in Quaker records that we have some of the earliest manifestations of anti-slavery sentiment, dating from the 1600s. After the 1750s, some Quakers actively engaged in attempting to sway public opinion in Britain and America against the slave trade and slavery in general. At the same time, some Quakers became actively involved in the economic, educational and political well being of the formerly enslaved.

 Quakers and Slavery was a consortial project of Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Funding was provided by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, through a program stipulated by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). This program is administered in Pennsylvania through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries for assisting libraries in providing all users access to information, developing partnerships, and increasing information access for persons who have difficulty gaining it.

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Letter to George Dillwyn, 1781-12
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1781-12
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn.
Date:
1781-12
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1767-08-30
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1767-08-30
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Refers to a girl the Dillwyns are thinking of taking.
Date:
1767-08-30
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes, 1844-04-05 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes, 1844-04-05 [extracts]
Description:
Minute concerning the property belonging to the schools for black people and their descendants.
Date:
1844-04-05
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1789-09-28 to 1789-10-03 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1789-09-28 to 1789-10-03 [extracts]
Description:
Reports to the Congress and the President on the constitutional powers over slavery. Also includes an address to the President of the United States, independent of Congress.
Date:
1789-09-28 - 1789-10-03
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Doctor Reynell Coates, 1839-11-22
Title:
Letter to Doctor Reynell Coates, 1839-11-22
Description:
Letter from Caspar Wistar to Dr. Reynell Coates regarding their friendship.
Date:
1839-11-22
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1681-1746 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1681-1746 [extracts]
Description:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting held at Burlington in which the Germantown Protest is discussed. Date inscribed on item is based on the Julian calendar.
Date:
1688-07-05
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
The Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the county of Salem
Title:
The Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the county of Salem
Description:
Petition signed by members of Salem Monthly Meeting calls for an end to slavery in New Jersey.
Date:
1774
Collection:
Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827- : Salem, N.J.), Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1767-04-15
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1767-04-15
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Sends statement of accounts and refers to school.
Date:
1767-04-15
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Anti-Slavery circular of William Harned et al
Title:
Anti-Slavery circular of William Harned et al
Description:
Circular of the New York State Vigilance Committee detailing Committee activities and requesting funds.
Date:
1849
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
'At a full meeting of some of the warmest advocates of the Anti-Slavery cause in Boston'
Collection:
Friends Historical Library Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Description:
Lucretia Mott tells her daughter to come home soon and informs her she will be forwarding the letter she wrote to Martha.
Date:
1854-01-30
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Lucretia Mott has gone to Nantucket after the death of her cousin, Nathaniel Barney. She talks about Lucy Stone's work on a "proposed National Society." She mentions going to a church where Robert Collyer was to speak, but he didn't come, so Lucretia gave an impromptu service. A letter from Alanson Swain to Edward Hopper (scanned as A00182594) was sent with this letter.
Date:
1869-09-09
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts
To our fellow members of the Religious Society of Friends
Title:
To our fellow members of the Religious Society of Friends
Description:
First circular of the Free Produce Association of Friends. It announces the mission of the Association and the date of the second meeting.
Date:
1845
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Samuel Fothergill, 1757-10-17
Title:
Letter to Samuel Fothergill, 1757-10-17
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to Samuel Fothergill.
Date:
1757-10-17
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1769-11
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1769-11
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Mentions Rachel Wilson, Molly Barker, Susanna Lightfoot, and Jeremiah Pickering.
Date:
1769-11
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1774-02-15
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1774-02-15
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Refers to the publication of writings of John Woolman.
Date:
1774-02-15
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
The constitution of the Pennsylvania society, for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage : Begun in the year 1774, and enlarged on the twenty-third of April, 1787. To which are added, the acts of the
Title:
The constitution of the Pennsylvania society, the acts of the General assembly of Pennsylvania, for the gradual abolition of slavery .
Description:
1787 printing of the Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society
Date:
1787
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1853-1862
Title:
Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1853-1862
Description:
Volume includes excerpted proceedings from the yearly meetings, 1853-1862 (excepting 1861, when there was no meeting). Entries from 1853-1855 intersperse clippings from the printed proceedings with handwritten notes. Entries from 1855-1862 consist only of clippings of the meeting minutes from the printed proceedings; these pages were not scanned from this volume.
Date:
1853 - 1862
Collection:
Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Letter of Appreciation 1899-04-23
Title:
Letter of Appreciation 1899-04-23
Description:
Letter of appreciation from Eliza Peterson to Lucy R. Robets on behalf of the participants in the Mothers' Meeting associated with the Western District Monthly Meeting's School for Colored Children. Includes account of the meetings.
Date:
1899-04-23
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1856-11-08
Title:
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1856-11-08
Description:
Letter from Elihu Burritt regarding the Free Produce Movement. Particularly in reference to his peace and anti-slavery paper (The Citizen) and a farmer Burritt sent to the United States to begin a free labor cotton farm in the South (Charles Dowman). Image has been adjusted for readablity.
Date:
1856-11-08
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College

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