Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection (HC.MC-1190)

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection (HC.MC-1190)

1848 -1880 (predominant 1858-1869).

https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-1190

The collection consists primarily of letters written to Benjamin Coates. The letters reflect Coates' philanthropy, especially as he donated books to the cause of African American/Liberian education. Correspondents include: George N. Allen, E.D. Bassett, George Bethune, Edward Blyden, Robert? Campbell, John E. Carter, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, M.E. Bibb Cary, Thomas Chase, Benjamin Coates, A. Cope, William Coppinger, Alex Crummell, E.B. Darnell, Thomas I. Durante, Frederick Douglass, William Evans, M.H. Freeman, Henry Highland Garnet, I. McD. Gurley, E.M. Gurley, Thomas Hamilton, Robert Harper?, J.D. Harris, Henry Hartshorne, Annie Heacock, W.S. Hilles, Joseph Hobbins, J.I. Holly, Ezra Johnson, Eleanor Ketchum, J.M. McKean, William F. Mitchell, Edmund Morris, J.B. Pinney, G.D. Pike, Evelyn E. Plummer, A. Prince, James E. Rhoads, Robert Carter & Bros., J.J. Roberts, Martin W. Roberts, J.B. Smith, D. Say?, M. Schofield, George L. Stearns, Joseph Tracy, Reuben Tomlinson, Thomas Tucker, Thomas Tucker, Alvin Varner, H.O. Wagoner, D.B. Warner, Jonathan Welsh, William Whipper, G. Whipple, Yates & Porterfield, John Young. In a Miscellaneous folder are: A.S. Barnes & Co., Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society, Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, Union Benevolent Association.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes, ca. 100 items)

eng, Latn

Haverford College Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7942490

Haverford College Library

Related Entities

There are 15 Entities related to this resource.

Coppinger, William, 1828-1892

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cr7f0v (person)

Tracy, Joseph, 1793?-1874

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zd0bb8 (person)

Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos, 1833-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6805347 (person)

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (born October 16, 1833, Derby, Connecticut – died November 13, 1908, Brooklyn, New York), United States Ambassador to Haiti from 1869 to 1877. He was the first African American diplomat and the fourth U.S. ambassador to Haiti since the two countries established relations in 1862. His mother was Pequot. From 1857 to 1869 he was the principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia. Ebenezer Bassett was appointed as new leaders emerged among free African A...

Hilles, William S., 1825-1876.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64x8kbx (person)

Freeman, Martin, 1826?-1889.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m366sh (person)

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jf5kqm (person)

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Whipper, William, 1804?-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d08hs (person)

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v706t7 (person)

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (b. Oct. 9, 1823, Wilmington, DE–d. June 5, 1893, Washington, D.C.) was the eldest of 13 children to Abraham Doras Shadd (1801–1882) and Harriet Burton Parnell, who were free African-Americans. Her father was a conductor in the Underground Railroad and Mary Ann grew up with many freedom-seekers in her house. The family moved to Pennsylvania and she attended a Quaker Boarding School before relocating to Ontario, Canada. While in Windsor, Ontario, Mary Ann founded a racially i...

American colonization society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6449kx0 (corporateBody)

The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs5w1j (person)

John Brooke Pinney was an American born Presbyterian minister, serving as a missionary in Liberia on various occasions from 1833-1878. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1828 where he studied law. In 1832 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia that same year. The following year Pinney became a missionary in Africa as agent of the American Colonization Society, which constituted him ex-officio Acting Governor of the colony o...

Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6np3j0c (person)

Blyden was an African American author and activist. From the description of Letter and newspaper clipping, 1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80219161 ...

Roberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins), 1809-1876

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x669p7 (person)

President of Liberia. From the description of Joseph J. Roberts family papers, 1839-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982912 ...

Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz2b4p (person)

Henry Highland Garnet was a prominent African-American clergyman and abolitionist. Theodore Tilton was a poet, abolitionist, and editor of the Congregationalist newspaper the Independent. From the description of Henry Highland Garnet letter to Theodore Tilton, 1859. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 709966851 ...

Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq7s5x (person)

Clergyman, missionary, scholar, and teacher. From the description of [Papers, ca. 1837-ca. 1898] [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 238022214 From the description of [Papers, ca. 1837-ca. 1898] [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 238022267 Clergyman, teacher, missionary. From the description of Alexander Crummell Papers, 1837-1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486308 From the guide to the Alexander Crummell Papers, 1837-189...

Coates, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1827-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xs6h9n (person)

Physician, Civil War officer, state legislator, and civic leader, of Portsmouth, Ohio. From the description of Benjamin F. Coates collection, 1862-1881 (bulk 1862-1865). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70925250 ...