Bacon Family., 1824-1879.

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The Bacons were a Congregational family from New Haven, Conn. Members represented in the correspondence of this collection include the father Leonard, his first wife, Lucy Johnson, and their four children, Rebecca, Benjamin, Leonard W., and Francis (Frank). The father was especially active in the American Colonization Society, and much correspondence pertains to his related activities. Rebecca worked as a missionary teacher for the American Missionary Association among the freedmen in Virginia at Hampton Institute from 1869-1871. Her brother Francis served as a surgeon during the Civil War.

The correspondence is divided into two categories: the business correspondence of Leonard Bacon with various abolitionists, and correspondence between family members. An item of particular interest in the latter group is aletter by Rebecca concerning the final illness of her aunt, Delia Salter Bacon, writer and originator of the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Other subjects include the Amistad schooner, and the colonization of Africa by blacks. Major correspondents include Samuel C. Armstrong, E.W. Baldwin, Elliot Cresson, John G. Fee, Thomas H. Gallaudet, R.R. Gurley, Walter Lowrie, Gerrit Smith, Lewis Tappan, Seth Terry, C. Van Renssellaer, and George Whipple.

From the description of Papers. Letters. 1824-1879. (Ascension Parish School). WorldCat record id: 18859546

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creatorOf Bacon Family., 1824-1879. Papers. Letters. 1824-1879. Tulane University, Amistad Research Center
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associatedWith American Colonization Society. corporateBody
associatedWith American Missionary Association. corporateBody
associatedWith Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 1839-1893. person
associatedWith Bacon, Benjamin W., 1860-1932. person
associatedWith Bacon, Delia Salter Bacon, 1811-1859. person
associatedWith Bacon, Frank (Francis), 1853-1912. person
associatedWith Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881. person
associatedWith Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, 1830-1907. person
associatedWith Bacon, Lucy Johnson. person
associatedWith Bacon, Rebecca T., 1826-1878. person
associatedWith Baldwin, W. person
associatedWith Bourne, Theodore. person
associatedWith Cresson, Elliot, 1796-1854. person
associatedWith Fee, John G., 1796-1854. person
associatedWith Finley, Robert S., 1772-1817. person
associatedWith Gallaudet, T. H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1787-1851. person
associatedWith Goodyear, C. P., 1800-1860. person
associatedWith Hampton Institute corporateBody
associatedWith Jocelyn, Simeon S., 1799-1879. person
associatedWith Latrobe, John H. B., 1803-1891. person
associatedWith Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868. person
associatedWith Phelps, Amos A. person
associatedWith Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874. person
associatedWith Strieby, Michael E., 1815-1899. person
associatedWith Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873. person
associatedWith Terry, Catherine, 1827-1848. person
associatedWith Terry, Seth. person
associatedWith United Church of Christ. corporateBody
associatedWith Van Renssellaer, Cortland, 1808-1860. person
associatedWith Whipple, George, 1805-1876. person
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United States
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Slavery
Abolitionists
African Americans
Amistad (Schooner) Case
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Active 1879

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