Daniel Foster papers, 1841-1884, bulk: 1850-1864.

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Daniel Foster papers, 1841-1884, bulk: 1850-1864.

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Papers of Daniel Foster, anti-slavery, temperance, and women's rights advocate, clergyman, and Civil War soldier. Papers include a diary describing his dedication to the anti-slavery effort, his longing for his wife Dora, his alienation and departure from the Congregational Church to join the Unitarian Church, his thoughts on the Thomas Sims trial in which Judge George Ticknor Curtis used the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to order the return of Sims to slavery in Georgia, his disappointment with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson's occasional drinking, and the birth, life, and death of his daughter Alice. Also, sermon books, including extensive notes while a minister in Kansas; an autograph book containing sketches; and correspondence with his family, his brother Baxter, Nathan Hale, and his wife Dora. As chaplain of the Massachusetts 33rd Volunteers and as captain of the 37th Colored Volunteers, Foster served from 1861 until his death in 1864.

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