Papers, 1820-1874.

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Papers, 1820-1874.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41391279

The collection primarily contains legal documents and legal correspondence from Morris' practice. These materials include: letters from potential clients (usually either a request for representation or a presentation of a potential case), letters and memoranda from the court, marriage certificates, wills, leases, contracts, emancipation papers, an autopsy report (1872), rental agreements, navy discharge papers, deeds, receipts, bank stubs, court testimonies and court documents. Several legal issues are also referenced in the collection: a contestation of Carter H. Edloe's will which would have awarded his slave, Harriet, $8,000 upon his death (1847), the liberation and legal matters pertaining to Liberia, a case regarding the journal, "Panorama, or Mirror of Slavery" (1851), pay inequities for African-American soldiers, slavery, B.C. Gregory versus the Union Club of Boston, Reverend Samuel Ringgold Ward's newspaper, "The Impartial Citizen," and signed petitions requesting a separate African-American militia called the Massasoit Guards. Other items in the collection include: letters regarding Morris' son's graduation from the Imperial College in France, the Freemen's National Memorial Monument Association, the by-laws and regulations of the African Humane Society (1820) with list of members, the Committee on the Militia, a manuscript song "Hang Out the Flag" (Elijah W. Smith, 1863?), and a schedule for the African Grand Lodge Archives (1866). Other correspondents include: Frederick George Barbadoes, Richard Henry Dana, John V. DeGrasse, George T. Downing, Charles Wheeler Denison, David Paul Brown, Ellen Craft, Alexander Crummell, Patrick Donahoe, Cato Freeman, Thomas D. Freeman, Sydney Howard Gay, John Quincy Adams Griffin, James Jackson, George Parkman, Josiah Quincy, Jr., John Robinson, John Sweat Rock, Charles Lenox Remond, William Still, Samuel Ringgold Ward, and Frank J. Webb.

27 folders in box ; 26 x 39 x 13 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Robinson, John, 1909-

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Barbadoes, Frederick George, 1832?-1899.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872

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Morris, Robert, 1823-1882

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Born in Salem, Mass. Morris was one of the first African-American lawyers in the United States and the first in Boston. Morris attempted to desegregate Boston schools in 1849, petitioned the Massachusetts legislature in 1852 for an African-American militia (the Massasoit Guards), was one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad and was very active in the Abolitionist movement and in the Boston Vigilance Committee. From the description of Papers, 1820-1874. (Boston Athenaeum). Wo...

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Craft, Ellen, 1826-1891

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Still, William, 1821-1902

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Donahoe, P. (Patrick), 1811-1901

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Denison, Charles Wheeler, 1809-1881

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Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the State of Massachusetts

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Downing, George T. (George Thomas), 1819-1903

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Webb, Frank J.

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Quincy, Josiah Jr., 1772-1864.

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Freemen's National Memorial Monument Association.

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Remond, Charles Lenox, 1810-1873

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Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898

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Smith, Elijah W. (Elijah William), 1830-1895

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Freeman, Cato.

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Parkman, George, 1790-1849

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Jackson, James, 1777-1867

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Freeman, Thomas D.

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Ward, Samuel Ringgold, 1817-

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Rock, John S. (John Sweat), 1825-1866

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Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888

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Gregory, B. C.

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