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The American Anti-Slavery Society 50th Anniversary
Title:
The American Anti-Slavery Society 50th Anniversary
Description:
Documents prepared for, and correspondence related to, the fiftieth anniversary of the Anti-Slavery Convention (held in Philadelphia in 1833), and the American Anti-Slavery Society that was formed on the occasion. Most documents in this collection are taken from the Daniel Neall Jr. (1817-1894) papers.
Date:
1833 - 1886
Collection:
Daniel Neall papers, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1754 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting Minutes, 1754 [extracts]
Description:
Minute entries in which Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting members suggest that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting issue an epistle against the buying and keeping of slaves. Extracts from entry for 1754.
Date:
1754-09-14
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Samuel Fothergill, 1771-10-24
Title:
Letter to Samuel Fothergill, 1771-10-24
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to Samuel Fothergill in regards to pamphlets published on the slave trade.
Date:
1771-10-24
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Selina, Countess of Huntington, 1775-04-10
Title:
Letter to Selina, 1775-04-10
Description:
Xerox copy of a letter from Anthony Benezet to Selina, Countess if Huntington. This letter is in regard to the orphanage in Georgia established and run by George Whitefield, under the patronage of the Countess. Whitefield had encouraged the colony of Georgia to end its prohibition of slavery. Benezet expresses respect for Whitefield but indicates that his reasoning for slavery is self serving rationalization.
Date:
1775-04-10
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Samuel Allinson
Title:
Letter to Samuel Allinson
Description:
A letter from Anthony Benezet to Samuel Allinson. The first page(s) are missing from this letter.
Date:
1773-12-14
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes, 1844-04-22 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes, 1844-04-22 [extracts]
Description:
Report of the committee who have charge of the schools for black people discussing property purchase at Locust and Rhasberry streets.
Date:
1844-04-22
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1730 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1730 [extracts]
Description:
Minute entry in which representatives of various quarterly meeting debate whether Friends should be permitted to purchase imported slaves resulting in an official proscription of Friends owning slaves. Date inscribed on item is based on the Julian calendar.
Date:
1730-09-19 - 1730-09-23
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Manumissions Book
Title:
Philadelphia Manumissions Book
Description:
Manumissions Book, 1772-1786. This volume is filled with the names of Quakers and others who released their slaves and provides the name of their Meeting and names of their slaves. While all the districts of Philadelphia are represented, the greatest number of manumissions came from members of the Monthly meeting of Philadelphia (Arch Street). Pages 60-80, 113-160, 183-186, and 194-212 from manumissions book are blank.
Date:
1772 - 1786
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1779-10
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1779-10
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn regarding his essay giving an account of Friends. Also gives a copy of letter from James Cannon.
Date:
1779-10
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1781-07
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1781-07
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Benezet has sent the History of the Church of Scotland.
Date:
1781-07
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1846-11-11
Title:
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1846-11-11
Description:
Letter from Elihu Burritt describing the progress of the Free Produce Movement in Great Britain and advising G.W. Taylor on strengthening the Free Produce Movement in the U. S.
Date:
1846-11-11
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1773-08-05
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1773-08-05
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Discusses James Parker, Thomas Webb, and the binding of Everard's book.
Date:
1773-08-05
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1780-10-23
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1780-10-23
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to Robert Pleasants. Benezet sends recently published pamphlets concerning the Meeting of Suffering and discusses Soame Jenyns' "A View of the Internal Evidences of the Christian Religion" .
Date:
1780-10-23
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Maps from Carey's General atlas, improved and enlarged [extracts]
Title:
Maps from Carey's General atlas, improved and enlarged [extracts]
Description:
Two maps, a map of the world and the Eastern United States from 1818.
Date:
1818
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Angelina and Sarah Moore Grimke, 1837-08-14
Title:
Letter to Angelina and Sarah Moore Grimke, 1837-08-14
Description:
Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier on the importance of the anti-Slavery cause in relationship to the women's rights movement.
Date:
1837-08-14
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Report of the Committee on Manufacturing, 1846-06-06
Title:
Report of the Committee on Manufacturing, 1846-06-06
Description:
Report of the Committee on Manufacturing to the Board of Managers of the Free Produce Association of Philadelphia including quantities and cost of free labor yarn and cloth produced.
Date:
1846-06-06
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Epistle of Caution and Advice, 1754
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Epistle of Caution and Advice, 1754
Description:
Epistle of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to the Quarterly Meetings urging against the buying and keeping of slaves.
Date:
1754-09-14
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1771-05-02
Title:
Letter to George Dillwyn, 1771-05-02
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to George Dillwyn. Requesting feedback and assistance before publication.
Date:
1771-05-02
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Nicholas Waln, 1784-04-23
Title:
Letter to Nicholas Waln, 1784-04-23
Description:
Letter from William B. Clark in which he writes of his stop in St. Kitts, the deplorable treatment of slaves in the West Indies, and the improper activities that occur among both black and white inhabitants there.
Date:
1784-04-23
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Lucy C. Shelmire
Title:
Letter to Lucy C. Shelmire
Description:
Letter from Sarah J. Troth to Lucy C. Shelmire including her recollections about the Western District Colored School.
Date:
1907-09-23
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College

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