Pleasants family.
Biographical notes:
The Pleasants were a prominent Virginia Quaker family with lands on the Upper James River. Robert Pleasants (1723-1801), was Clerk of the Upper Quarterly Meeting and Virginia Yearly Meeting. He was a renowned abolitionist and philanthropist, a founder and president of Virginia Abolition Society.
From the description of Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, 1745-1898 (bulk 1745-1850). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122644187
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Subjects:
- Antislavery movements
- Society of Friends
- Journalists
- Quaker abolitionists
- Quakers
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- Virginia (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Pennsylvania (as recorded)
- Philadelphia (Pa.) (as recorded)
