Minutes, 1892-1936.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936)

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The Committee on Philanthropic Labor was appointed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) in 1892, merging the existing committees of Indian Concerns, Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages, and Colored People of the South. The Committee coordinated Philadelphia Hicksite Quaker activity in a number of social concerns, including race relations, indian affairs, temperance and peace. In 1892, Subcommittees included Peace and Arbitration, Improper Publications, the Colored People, India...

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Committee on the Education of the Colored People of the South (1887-1892)

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892)

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After the schism of 1827/28, the Hicksite branch of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends did not appoint an Indian Committee of its own until 1837; this committee was formed primarily to protect the rights of the Senecas in New York in their dispute with the Ogden Land Company. The first Hicksite committee was laid down in 1850, with Representative Committee coordinating Indian concerns until the Yearly Meeting appointed a Joint Committee on Indian Affairs in 1869, after the proclamation of Pr...

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Committee on Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages (1881-1892)

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