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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
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
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
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
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes, 1837 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes, 1837 [extracts]
Description:
Essay of testimony in case of Richard Wilson in which he is accused of owning slaves and involvement in the slave trade, 1837.
Date:
1837
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
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Description:
Esther Fussell Lewis was Graceanna Lewis' mother. Addressed to "Relatives." Discusses a variety of topics, including her mother's virtues; a relative's marriage; a lecturer from a school in Berea, Ohio, who visited Lewis's school; a pair of lecturers on phrenology from Dartmouth who visited Lewis's school and gave phrenological examinations of her and her students and family (she reproduces her own in full); a visit from a chemist with very unusual ideas about universally intelligible writing; 10 runaway slaves who were sheltered by local abolitionists while pursued by a large group of men at the behest of a female slaveholder; and several other topics.
Date:
1842-10-07
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District Minutes [extracts]
Description:
Charge against Richard Wilson for owning slaves and being involved in the slave trade.
Date:
1837
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
The Original Papers of Manumission by the Monthly Meetings Composing the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia
Title:
The Original Papers of Manumission by the Monthly Meetings Composing the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia
Description:
The original papers of manumission from the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia. Recorded by Abington, Exeter, Gwynedd, Haverford, Philadelphia, Northern District, and Southern District Monthly Meetings. Provides the name of their Meeting and names of their slaves.
Date:
1772 - 1790
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Description:
Written by Rebecca White to her sister while vacationing in Georgia and Florida. Discusses their correspondence and household maintenance. Reports on her activities, including her interactions with an enslaver and an enslaved woman. Discusses whether various southerners inferred from White's use of plain speech that she was a Quaker.
Date:
1857-05-27
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Elias Hicks Manumission
Title:
Elias Hicks Manumission
Description:
Copy of manumission certificate issued by Elias Hicks, renouncing his claim to a slave named as "Ben."
Date:
1778-12-14
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore