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Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes : recommended to the professors of Christianity of every denomination
Title:
Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes : recommended to the professors of Christianity of every denomination
Description:
Essay protesting slavery on religious grounds.
Date:
1754
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
From the Overseers of the Press Concerning Jn. Woolmans Negro Book
Title:
From the Overseers of the Press Concerning Jn. Woolmans Negro Book
Description:
Notice from Overseers of the Press of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting about the availability of John Woolman's newly-published 'Some Considerations on Keeping Negroes' part 2.
Date:
1762-03-28
Collection:
Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
At a Meeting of the Representatives ... held in Philadelphia, Third month 16th, 1860 : Several articles have appeared
Title:
At a Meeting of the Representatives ... held in Philadelphia, 1860 : Several articles have appeared
Description:
In regard to opposition of Friends to Negro slavery. Broadsheet, signed by Joseph Snowdon, Clerk
Date:
1860
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1681-1746 [extracts]
Title:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1681-1746 [extracts]
Description:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting held at Burlington in which the Germantown Protest is discussed. Date inscribed on item is based on the Julian calendar.
Date:
1688-07-05
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
The Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the county of Salem
Title:
The Petition of sundry Inhabitants of the county of Salem
Description:
Petition signed by members of Salem Monthly Meeting calls for an end to slavery in New Jersey.
Date:
1774
Collection:
Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827- : Salem, N.J.), Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Free Produce Meeting : at a Free Produce Meeting of Friends held at their MeetingHouse in Newport, R. I., 6th Mo. 16th, 1851, by adjournment from last year
Title:
Free Produce Meeting : at a Free Produce Meeting of Friends held at their MeetingHouse in Newport, by adjournment from last year
Description:
Signed: Silas Cornell, Clerk
Date:
1851
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
To our fellow members of the Religious Society of Friends
Title:
To our fellow members of the Religious Society of Friends
Description:
First circular of the Free Produce Association of Friends. It announces the mission of the Association and the date of the second meeting.
Date:
1845
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Dear Friends, some months ago we requested your assistance to disperse a short representation of the case of the oppressed Africans, for the purpose of exposing the iniquity of the slave trade.
Title:
Dear Friends, for the purpose of exposing the iniquity of the slave trade.
Description:
At head of title: To the quarterly meeting of Friends of
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Free Produce Meeting : at a Free Produce Meeting of Friends, held in their meeting house in Newport, 6 Mo., 18th, 1850, agreeably to an adjournment of last year
Title:
Free Produce Meeting : at a Free Produce Meeting of Friends, agreeably to an adjournment of last year
Description:
Signed: Silas Cornell, Clerk
Date:
1850
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. The memorial and address of the people called Quakers from their yearly meeting held in Philadelphia, by adjournments from the 25th of the 9th month, to the 29th of the
Title:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. The memorial and address of the people called Quakers from their yearly meeting held in Philadelphia, to the 29th of the same, inclusive, 1797
Description:
Broadsheet. Bound with [2] Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). The present condition of schools within the limits of this meeting. 1833.
Date:
1797
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
To our fellow members of the Religious Society of Friends
Title:
To our fellow members of the Religious Society of Friends
Description:
Announcing the date of the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends' second meeting; Philadelphia Quakers' contribution to the surging anti-slavery movement
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Circular epistle : From our yearly meeting, held in London, by adjournments, from the 20th of the 5th month to the 29th of the same inclusive, 1840. To the yearly meetings of Friends on the continent of North America.
Title:
Circular epistle : From our yearly meeting, 1840. To the yearly meetings of Friends on the continent of North America.
Description:
On slavery
Date:
1840
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
A testimony for family meeting and keeping negro servants
Title:
A testimony for family meeting and keeping negro servants
Description:
Gray, George (d. 1718). "A Testimony for Family Meeting and keeping Nigro as Servants until they are in Some Measure brought into a Christian Life which is the Duty of every Master & Mistress of familyes to Endeavor to bring them so that they may be free Men in deed."
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade [original manuscript]
Title:
The History of the Rise, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade [original manuscript]
Description:
Original manuscript copy of Clarkson's history of the slave trade. The first edition of Clarkson's history was published in 1808. The manuscript was completed sometime before that date. Only the first volume has been published online. Except for the Table of Contents (handwritten by Clarkson's wife, Catherine Buck) and an image of the middle passage (included here as HC09-10025_331), the second volume is a pentegraph copy of the first. It is available for viewing at Haverford College Special Collections, which also holds the following published editions: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808; Philadelphia : James P. Parke, 1808 [1st American edition]; Wilmington : Printed by R. Porter, 1816 [abridged by Evan Lewis]; New York : Published by John S. Taylor, 1836.
Date:
1808
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Some consideration on the African slave trade, and the use of West India produce
Title:
Some consideration on the African slave trade, and the use of West India produce
Description:
Broadside
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, 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
Ruees [sic] for the regueatfon [sic] of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes , and others, unlawfully held in bondage, Instituted in Philadelphia in the year 1784. To which are prefixed, The acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, respecting t
Title:
Ruees [sic] for the regueatfon [sic] of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes, respecting the gradual abolition of slavery.
Description:
Organizational papers of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes and others (later the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery). Quakers were active in the founding of this society. In 1789 it became the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
Date:
1784
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania: The Memorial of the Representatives of the ... Friends, in Pennsylvania etc., respectfully represents
Title:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania: The Memorial of the Representatives of the ... Friends, respectfully represents
Description:
In regard to bill about fugitive slaves; Broadsheet, signed by William Evans, clerk
Date:
1851
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College

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