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1839 March 12, Savannah, to Dear Father, Philadelphia
Title:
1839 March 12, Philadelphia
Date:
1839-03-12
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
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
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
Letter to Moses Brown, 1773-12-28
Title:
Letter to Moses Brown, 1773-12-28
Description:
Copy of a letter from Anthony Benezet to Moses Brown. Manumissions are briefly mentioned as is concern about the destruction of tea in Boston. Benezet also discusses Virginia Yearly Meeting and their petition to the King regarding the slave trade.
Date:
1773-12-28
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Enoch Adams poems
Title:
Enoch Adams poems
Description:
Enoch Adams was a soldier and poet who Gibbons met while working as an army nurse during the Civil War. The poems' subjects include war, freedmen, the Confederacy, and emancipation.
Date:
1861-1865
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Details the boat trip with Lucy through Maryland and Virginia and the warm reception given them by the crew, whose captain she had travelled with before. Meets with many black people and discusses the effects of emancipation. Discusses the continued poverty and suffering, including being paid less than a living wage. "The laws give no protection whatever to the colored man, and the suffering by hard treatment and starvation is horrible."
Date:
1866-09-18
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Andrew Dickson White letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Andrew Dickson White letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Andrew Dickson White American historian and educator; he was a co-founder of Cornell University and served as its first president. He writes to correct Anna Jackson regarding a statement he made about the cost of emancipating slaves by having the government buy all newborn slaves, a proposal that had been made by Henry Clay, versus the cost of the Civil War. He says that he had remarked that the cost of Clay's proposal was approximately the cost of a fortnight of the war, not a single day of the war.
Date:
1914-09-30
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, Annual Reports
Title:
Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, Annual Reports
Description:
Yearly reports printed for annual meeting of the association. Largely consist of narrative accounts of the freedmen's progress, drawn from letters sent by teachers who operated colored schools under the care of the association. Most years, a list of the society's officers, the treasurer's report, accounts of donations received in cash and goods, and an overview of distributions made were also included.
Date:
1864 - 1871
Collection:
Friends Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
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
Chesterfield Manumissions
Title:
Chesterfield Manumissions
Description:
This collection chiefly consists of manumission certificates signed by members of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, 1774-1796. It also includes several related documents on topics such as the education of free Negroes, and the treatment of Friends who refused to comply with the Anti-Slavery Testimony.
Date:
1774 - 1848
Collection:
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
A List Of the Members of the New York Manumission Society
Title:
A List Of the Members of the New York Manumission Society
Description:
Membership list kept by Isaac T. Hopper includes members' names and some addresses, dates of entry into the society, and membership status. Notebook also includes two tables: one reporting the number ex-slaves freed by the society, 1791-1814; and one recording the teachers' names, salaries, and number of pupils in the African Free School.
Date:
1791 - 1827
Collection:
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
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
American Anti-Slavery Society circular
Title:
American Anti-Slavery Society circular
Description:
The circular is an appeal for donations for the American Anti-Slavery Society's work in support of ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, which would guarantee black men the right to vote.
Date:
1869-12
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College