Benjamin Lundy papers, 1814-1906.

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Benjamin Lundy papers, 1814-1906.

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Correspondence pertaining chiefly to the antislavery movement. Includes descriptions of Hennepin and Lowell, Illinois, circa 1838-1839. Correspondents include Charles C. Burleigh and members of the Lundy and Vickers families. Other items include a petition to the governor of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico, requesting permission to settle African American families there in 1832; a circular (1837) concerning the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; poems; and an undated biographical sketch of Benjamin Lundy. The collection includes papers of abolitionist Paxson Vickers.

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Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878

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American abolitionist and lecturer. From the description of Autograph entry signed : Salem, Ohio, 1868 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639942115 Burleigh was an abolitionist and reformer, associated with the Garrisonian wing of the anti-slavery movement. He was editor of the Unionists, 1835-37, wrote for the Liberator, edited the Pennsylvania Freeman after 1844, and served as the secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society and editor of its annual reports. ...

Vickers, Paxson

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Vickers family

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Lundy family

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Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839

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Abolitionist, publisher, and author. From the description of Benjamin Lundy papers, 1814-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981064 Quaker abolitionist who published a newspaper, Genius of Universal Emancipation, in Baltimore, MD. that was devoted to the complete abolition of slavery in the United States. From the description of Letter, Sept. 23, 1838. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52538372 ...

Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society

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Founded in 1837, the Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society was formed to "promote, by peaceful and Christian means, the emancipation of the enslaved, and the universal extension of the free principles inculcated in the Gospel of Love, and reiterated in the Bill of Rights of Pennsylvania." The Pennsylvania Society was an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Members included Robert Purvis, Lindley Coates, James Mott, Mary Grew, Haworth Wetherald, Sarah Pugh, Edward M. Davis, Lucretia ...