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Letter from Thomas Garrett, 1861-12-02
Title:
Letter from Thomas Garrett, 1861-12-02
Description:
Letter from Thomas Garrett to his children in which he mentions the emancipation bill in Congress
Date:
1861-12-02
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Isaac Jackson Journal, 1776
Title:
Isaac Jackson Journal, 1776
Description:
Short account of a visit made by Isaac Jackson to Friends (who keep slaves) on the Western Shore of Maryland.
Date:
1776-11
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 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
A serious expostulation with the members of the House of Representatives of the United States
Title:
A serious expostulation with the members of the House of Representatives of the United States
Description:
Printed in Philadelphia; Reprinted by J. Spooner in Newbedford, 1793
Date:
1793
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 Robert Pleasants, 1773-04-08
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1773-04-08
Description:
Letter from Anthony Benezet to Robert Pleasants. Benezet addresses the Maryland Assembly's petition to increase the tax on imported slaves and notes the increased danger of a slave revolt if the slave trade continues.
Date:
1773-04-08
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Meeting for Sufferings Minutes, 1788- 10-08 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1864-12-20 [extracts]
Description:
Address to the New Jersey Assembly requesting that they pass legislation making it illegal to outfit slave ships.
Date:
1788-10-08
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1792-08-20
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1792-08-20
Description:
Letter from Christr. Johnson to Robert Pleasants. Johnson discusses attending court cases regarding slavery in South Carolina and Georgia.
Date:
1792-08-20
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1774-05-07
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1774-05-07
Description:
Typed copy of letter from Anthony Benezet to Robert Pleasants which discusses the the continued importation of slaves into the southern colonies and appeals made by the northern colonies to end the slave trade.
Date:
1774-05-07
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minute, 1789-10-03 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minute, 1789-10-03 [extracts]
Description:
Nicholas Waln's draft of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Address to the Continental Congress on constitutional powers over slavery.
Date:
1789-10-03
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Anthony Benezet, 1772-08-21
Title:
Letter to Anthony Benezet, 1772-08-21
Description:
Letter to Anthony Benezet in which Granville Sharp offers advice on petitioning Parliament and the King for an end to slavery in the colonies.
Date:
1772-08-04
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Duck Creek Manumissions, 1774-1792
Title:
Duck Creek Manumissions, 1774-1792
Description:
This volume consists of manumissions of slaves by the members of Duck Creek Monthly Meeting and some other Friends, recorded according to the 2mo 22nd, 1777 direction of the Meeting. The Monthly Meeting at Duck Creek was set off from Newark (Kennett) Monthly Meeting in 1705, and included Quakers who worshipped at a number of meeting houses in Kent County, Delaware. This volume is filled from front and back (44 pages, 70 pages) and is partially indexed. The page numbering jumps from page 36 to page 39. The name of Warner Mifflin, the noted 18th century abolitionist, appears frequently as witness or examiner of many of the manumission certificates.
Date:
1774 - 1792
Collection:
Camden Monthly Meeting Records, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Free Maryland
Title:
Free Maryland
Description:
Anti-slavery pamphlet included in the papers of George Washington Taylor's free labor store.
Date:
1864-11-01
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Consequences of Slavery
Title:
Consequences of Slavery
Description:
Description of a fugitive slave family attempting to murder their children rather than return them to slavery. Article originally appeared in Cincinnati papers and was reprinted in The Friend.
Date:
1856-03-08
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College