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Start Over Date range 1860 Subjects Abolitionists Level Collection

Abolitionist Movement Collection 0.01 Linear Foot

Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895

Letters, a speech, and a photograph relating to the abolitionist movement in the United States. Correspondents include: Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) of Lane Seminary, Elizur Wright (1804-1885), Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), philanthropist and reformer, Henry Grew (1782-1862), Quaker abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), prominent abolitionist, and Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898), abolitionist author. Subjects include abolition tactics and organizations, expressions of sympathy to Garrison on the death of his wife and publication of Pillsbury's work. Also includes a photograph of Mary Grew (1813-1896), daughter of Henry Grew and an abolitionist in her own right.

  1. College of William and Mary

Louis Alexis Chamerouzow Letter Fragment and Anti- Slavery Society Invitation 0.01 Linear Feet

Chamerouzow, Louis Alexis

British and foreign Anti-Slavery Society invitation sent to an unidentified individual from Louis Alexis Chamerouzow on October 30, 1860 for an event to be held by the society on November 2, 1860. On the back of the invitation is the fragment of a letter concerning spirituality and remaining humble in service. Creator and recipient of the letter are unknown.

  1. College of William and Mary

Philbrick Family Papers 4 Item

Philbrick, Richard

This collection consists of a manuscript letter to Joseph Philbrick (Jan. 9, 1843) from the Massachusettes Anti-Slavery Society promoting William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper "The Liberator," an original copy of the July 8, 1842 edition of "The Liberator," a fragment of the Dec. 1, 1865 edition of "The Liberator", a receipt for payment for a subscription to The Liberator, and an albumen photograph of John C. Fremont and his wife taken in front of the "Fremont Tree." The "Freemont Tree" was a Redwood tree in Santa Cruz, California where Fremont purportedly camped with his party of explorers in 1846.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Virgil Maxwell Ward letters .04 Cubic Feet 1 legal size folder

Ward, Virgil Maxwell, 1827-1898

This collection contains four letters from a formerly enslaved person, Virgil M. Ward to his former Philadelphia employer, Edward Morris Davis, referred to as "Dear Friend " in the letters. Ward was born in Virginia in 1827, and it is unknown how he escaped enslavement. He worked in Philadelphia for Davis at $15.00 per month from April 1st, 1855 to April 13th, 1857. He moved to Ypsilanti, then Canada, and finally to Michigan.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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