Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee records, 1856-1857.

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Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee records, 1856-1857.

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Records kept by Patrick Tracy Jackson of Boston, Mass. while treasurer of the Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee, June 1856-Sept. 1857, pertaining to the committee's role in the effort to make Kansas a free state; political and social affairs in Kansas; and the activities of other similar organizations including the National Kansas Aid Committee and the [New England] Emigrant Aid Company. Includes correspondence written and received by Jackson, Samuel Gridley Howe, and other committee members, account books and records, 1856-57; and checks and receipts. Also includes a formal agreement to form the Emigrant Aid Company, 1854.

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Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee.

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Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...

Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 1818-1891

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National Kansas Committee

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New England Emigrant Aid Company

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Company organized in 1854 as the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company to promote the settlement of Kansas by antislavery advocates as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act by the U.S. Congress in 1854; name changed in 1855. Of Boston, Mass. From the description of New England Emigrant Aid Company papers. [microform] / editor, Joseph W. Snell. Assistant editor: Eunice L. Schenck. Microfilm technician: George T. Hawley, 1854-1909. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat ...