Journal, 1844.

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Journal, 1844.

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Manuscript and typescript record of Elizabeth's trip to Charleston, S.C., with her father, Samuel Hoar, who was sent by the governor of Massachusetts to test the constitutionality of certain laws in South Carolina under which free blacks from Massachusetts, serving as seamen on vessels trading at ports in South Carolina, were seized, imprisoned, and sometimes sold as slaves.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Hoar, Samuel, 1778-1856

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Samuel Hoar (May 18, 1778 – November 2, 1856) was a United States lawyer and politician. A member of a prominent political family in Massachusetts, he was a leading 19th century lawyer of that state. He was associated with the Federalist Party until its decline after the War of 1812. Over his career, a prominent Massachusetts anti-slavery politician and spokesperson. He became a leading member of the Massachusetts Whig Party, a leading and founding member of the Massachusetts Free Soil Party, an...

Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878

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Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (July 14, 1814-April 7, 1878) was a schoolmate of Henry Thoreau and his siblings. After his death she assisted Sophia Thoreau and Ellery Channing in collecting the posthumous works of Henry, close friend and traveling companion of her brother Edward. In her youth Elizabeth was engaged to marry Charles Chauncy Emerson, her father's young law partner. Charles died of consumption in May, 1836, before they were wed. Much beloved by his family, Elizabeth was for the rest of her...