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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 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
Black Water Monthly Meeting, Manumissions, 1776 - 1779
Title:
Black Water Monthly Meeting, 1776 - 1779
Description:
Minute book from Blackwater Monthly Meeting 1779-5-13 through 1795-4-18. The first 30 pages are Manumissions dated 1776-1779.
Date:
1776-11-14 - 1779-05-31
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Copy of Patrick Henry letter to Robert Pleasants
Title:
Copy of Patrick Henry letter to Robert Pleasants
Description:
Patrick Henry's response to Robert Pleasants' sending of Anthony Benezet's antislavery book.
Date:
1773-01-18
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
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 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
Memoirs of the lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford : two of the earliest public advocates for the emancipation of the enslaved Africans
Title:
Memoirs of the lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford : two of the earliest public advocates for the emancipation of the enslaved Africans
Description:
Biographies of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford compiled primarily from the author's interviews with elderly community members. Bound with : A short memoir of Andrew Underhill. 1826
Date:
1816
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Title:
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Description:
Selected correspondence from the Samuel M. Janney papers highlight Janney's anti-slavery stance.
Collection:
Samuel M. Janney Papers, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1781-03-17
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1781-03-17
Description:
Typed copy of a letter from Anthony Benezet to Robert Pleasants. Discussing education for the "poor blacks".
Date:
1781-03-17
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Moses Brown, 1774-05-09
Title:
Letter to Moses Brown, 1774-05-09
Description:
Copy of a letter from Anthony Benezet to Moses Brown. Discussing Eastern States' petitions and bills to the King and Parliament in opposition to slavery and the slave trade. Benezet discusses his friend Samuel Nottingham and his wife's slaves. Also includes an account of a letter concerning the lives and future of slaves from Nathanial Gilbert of Antigua.
Date:
1774-05-09
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
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1793-01-09
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1793-01-09
Description:
Letter from John Hough to Robert Pleasants. Houghs discusses circulating a petition against slavery to Hopewell, Goose Creek, and Alexandria Monthly Meetings in Virgina.
Date:
1793-01-09
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 George Washington Taylor, 1855-01-19
Title:
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1855-01-19
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 readability.
Date:
1855-01-19
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Early Anti-Slavery Advocates
Title:
Early Anti-Slavery Advocates
Description:
Biographical sketches of William Burling, Ralph Sandiford, and Benjamin Lay.
Date:
1855-11-24 - 1856-03-29
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Selina, Countess of Huntington, 1774-05-20
Title:
Letter to Selina, 1774-05-20
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 speaks of the inhuman treatment of slaves and expresses his views against the slave trade. He sends accounts of treatment of runaway slaves and asks the countess to treat her slaves kindly and support those trying to end the slave trade.
Date:
1774-05-20
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Virginia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1779 [extracts]
Title:
Virginia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1779 [extracts]
Description:
Minute from a Yearly Meeting held at Curles concerning the extrication of a young girl from a state of slavery. 1779.
Date:
1779-05
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1778-11-02
Title:
Letter to Robert Pleasants, 1778-11-02
Description:
Letter from Thos. Nicholson to Robert Pleasants. Includes a "decree of the Supreme Court in favour of Negroes [seiz'd?] & sold in Carolina". In regards to manumitted slaves being sold into a second bondage.
Date:
1778-11-02
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College

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