Collection, 1822-1916.

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Collection, 1822-1916.

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Miscellaneous collection of autograph letters, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia, gathered by Edward Wetherill, Philadelphia abolitionist, and wife Anna Thorpe Wetherill. One volume relates to the anti-slavery movement and contains letters to James Miller McKim, anti-slavery leader associated with the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the Pennsylvania Freeman, 1853-1860, and letters from Mary Grew, Philadelphia abolitionist and suffragette, 1860, 1891.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Grew, Mary, 1813-1896

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Mary Grew (September 1, 1813 – October 10, 1896) was an American abolitionist and suffragist whose career spanned nearly the entire 19th century. She was a leader of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. She was one of eight women delegates who were denied their seats at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. An editor and journalist, she wrote for abolitionist newspapers and chronicled the work of Philadelphia's abolitionists over more t...

Wetherill, Anna Thorpe

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M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874

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Wetherill, Edward

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Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society

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Founded in 1837, the Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society was formed to "promote, by peaceful and Christian means, the emancipation of the enslaved, and the universal extension of the free principles inculcated in the Gospel of Love, and reiterated in the Bill of Rights of Pennsylvania." The Pennsylvania Society was an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Members included Robert Purvis, Lindley Coates, James Mott, Mary Grew, Haworth Wetherald, Sarah Pugh, Edward M. Davis, Lucretia ...