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Lucretia Mott and James Mott travel minute
Title:
Lucretia Mott and James Mott travel minute
Description:
A travel minute is a formal letter of introduction from a Quaker Meeting on behalf of a Friend, indicating that the bearer has the recommendation of the meeting. Written by the "Association of Friends for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the Free People of Colour" for Lucretia and James Mott to present to "the Abolitionists of Great Britain, probably on the occasion of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention. Signed by multiple members.
Date:
1840-05-01
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter draft to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Title:
Emily Howland letter draft to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Description:
Draft of a letter to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, an Indian social reformer and women's rights activist. Offers a brief sketch of Howland's early life as an abolitionist (for Howland's first draft of this sketch, see A00186546). Discusses the antislavery movement and her family's participation in the Underground Railroad. Comments on the barriers to abolitionist work Howland had felt her gender and religion placed on her. Discusses Howland's time teaching at the Miner School in Washington, D.C. Remarks on her father Slocum Howland and her abolitionist upbringing. Also includes a pad of paper with small notes on it.
Date:
1890-01-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Samuel S. Ash
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Samuel S. Ash
Description:
Possibly a fragment. Samuel Ash was Martha Schofield's brother-in-law. She thanks him for sending her word about the death of Lucretia Mott. She then describes speaking to an African American Baptist congregation about Mott and her labors towards the abolition of slavery.
Date:
1880-11-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Julia Wilbur diary, 1847-1854
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, 1847-1854
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Loose material with text has been scanned on the page it precedes. Semi-daily entries describe Wilbur's daily life; teaching career; participation in the anti-slavery movement, including attendance at anti-slavery meetings and association with Frederick Douglass; observations of racism against African Americans and racial discrimination in education; extensive attendance at various lectures and meetings on subjects including science, temperance, teaching, abolition, and women's rights; presence during speeches of prominent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Mott, Abby Foster Kelley, and William Lloyd Garrison; participation in the women's rights movement and association with Susan B. Anthony; and family relationships.
Date:
1847-11-25 - 1854-01-10
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Eustache
Title:
Eustache
Collection:
Friends Historical Library Selections
Ellen Craft — the fugitive slave
Title:
Ellen Craft — the fugitive slave
Collection:
Friends Historical Library Selections
J. Miller McKim
Title:
J. Miller McKim
Description:
Detail from Executive Committe of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (A000064).
Date:
(questionable)1851
Collection:
Friends Historical Library miscellaneous photographs collection, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
Title:
Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
Description:
Phototype reproduction by Frederick Gutekunst of original daguerreotype. Standing (left to right): Mary Grew, Edward M. Davis, Haworth Wetherald, Abby Kimber, J. Miller McKim and Sarah Pugh. Seated (left to right): Oliver Johnson, Margaret Jones Burleigh, Benjamin C. Bacon, Robert Purvis, Lucretia Mott, James Mott.
Date:
(questionable)1851
Collection:
Friends Historical Library miscellaneous photographs collection, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
T. Clarkson et Wilberforce
Title:
T. Clarkson et Wilberforce
Date:
1835
Collection:
Friends Historical Library miscellaneous photographs collection, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Yours truly, Thomas Clarkson
Title:
Yours truly, Thomas Clarkson
Description:
Painted by S. Lane. Engraved by J. Cochran. Fisher, Son, & Co. London, & Paris, 1839
Date:
1839
Collection:
Friends Historical Library miscellaneous photographs collection, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Lucretia Mott letter to Sarah
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Sarah
Description:
Lucretia Mott tells Sarah she has saved letters with autographs of prominent abolitionists for her son Charles S. Ogden and gives her condolences for the loss in her family.
Date:
1851-04-28
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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