Papers, ca. 1794-1927.

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Papers, ca. 1794-1927.

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Correspondence on the subjects of antislavery and colonization in Liberia, plans for a mental hospital, and on personal affairs. Also includes manuscripts relating to the Maryland State and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies and the Sheppard Asylum, material on the libel trial of William Lloyd Garrison, and other papers. Of particular note is the correspondence of Moses Sheppard with Henry Gassett of Boston on Freemasonry and with Benjamin F. Taylor of Loudon Co., Virginia, on anti-slavery issues and the "spiritual tyranny" of the Cathoic Church. Other correspondents include Benjamin Hallowell, John Jackson, Joshua Dungan, Thomas Ellicott, Dr. Nathan Shoemaker, Elisha Tyson, and many others. Collection also includes a list of applicants for Liberia and correspondence from Joshua H. Stewart in Africa and Samuel Ford McGill, a Liberian physician who was sponsored by Sheppard.

9 boxes.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...

McGill, Samuel F. (Samuel Ford)

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Gassett, Henry, 1813-1886

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Sheppard, Moses.

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Quaker humanitarian and businessman of Baltimore, Md. Born outside of Philadelphia in 1775, Moses Sheppard was the son of Nathan and Sarah Shoemaker Sheppard. After their property was confiscated during the Revolutionary War, the family eventually moved to Maryland. Moses began work as an errand boy for Quaker merchant, John Mitchell; he eventually went into partnership with him and was also involved in a number of other business venures. Sheppard never married and devot...

Jackson, John, 1809-1855

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John Jackson, son of Halliday and Jane Jackson of Darby, Pa., was a Quaker minister and educator. George Truman (1798-1877), a merchant and dentist, also was a Quaker minister. From the description of Correspondence, 1834-1835. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 57202931 John Jackson (1809-1855), son of Halliday and Jane Jackson of Darby, Pa., married Rachel Tyson (1807?-1883), daughter of Isaac Tyson of Baltimore, Md., in 1832. Together they established the Sharon Fe...

Maryland State Colonization Society

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Founded in 1817 as an auxiliary of the Washington-based American Colonization Society, the Maryland State Colonization Society's primary functions were to gather funds for the parent society and to recruit colonists for the American Society's settlement, Liberia, founded on the West African coast in 1822. Ten years later, the Maryland Society decided to chart a course independent of the American Society by founding a separate colony for Maryland's free blacks, called "Maryland in Liberia." Confl...

Shoemaker, Nathan, 1788-1868

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Ellicott, Thomas, 1777-1859

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Dungan, Joshua

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Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital

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The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital depicted in this photo collection was established by merchant and philanthropist Moses Sheppard in 1853. A Quaker, Mr. Sheppard was mindful of social ills and desirous of addressing them. When enlisted by prominent social reformer Dorothea Dix to help found an institution in Maryland for the humane care of the mentally ill, Sheppard responded by obtaining a charter from the Maryland General Assembly to establish The Sheppard Asylum, which he funded. His plan...

Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877

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College president and educator. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Hallowell, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450732 ...

Tyson, Elisha, 1750-1824

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Stewart, Joshua Michael

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Free masons.

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