John McDonogh papers, 1789-1869.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

John McDonogh papers, 1789-1869.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703226121

This collection consists primarily of personal and business papers of John McDonogh. Included are correspondence, slave sale and other legal documents, financial papers, and shipping records. Papers about a Florida land claim controversy, and McDonogh's actions regarding the emancipation of slaves, are also included. A frequent correspondent was abolitionist Sarah Bella McLean, President of the Ohio Ladies Society for the Education of Colored People.

9 linear feet (18 boxes)

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8029999

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

McDonogh, John.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q6036b (person)

John McDonogh (1779-1850) was a businessman, investor, planter, and educational philanthropist. In his will, he designated large sums to several charitable causes, including the McDonogh School Fund which resulted in the creation of twenty-eight schools in New Orleans, two in his plantation, McDonoghville, and many in his birthplace, Baltimore, Md. Eighty of John McDonogh's slaves were sent to Liberia through the American Colonization Society. From the description of John McDonogh pa...

McLean, Sarah Bella

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zw40g8 (person)

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...

Ohio Ladies Society for the Education of Colored People

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ps4xmq (corporateBody)