Slavery/Anti-Slavery Collection, 1791-1968
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Slavery/Anti-Slavery Collection
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Scope and Contents of the Collection Slave Children from New Orleans, circa 1864 On reverse: "...The nett proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks." Photo by Charles Paxson, New York. This collection consists primarily of material that documents abolitionist activism from 1791 to 1865. Original source material includes abolitionist publications, annual reports, correspondence, addresses, conference proceedings, essays, newspaper clippings, photographs, and sermons. Individuals represented in the collection include Jonathon Edwards, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, members of the Garrison family, Angelina Grimké, Daniel Webster, Emma Willard, Maria Weston Chapman, and Henry B. Blackwell. Included in the collection are records of the Providence (R.I.) Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-43; the proceedings of the Anti-slavery Convention of American Women in Philadelphia in 1838; the eighth annual report of the Boston Female Anti-slavery Society from 1841; Jonathan Edwards's 1791 sermon "The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade and the Slavery of the Africans"; deeds from the sales of female slaves from 1820 and 1858; photographs of emancipated slaves; and numerous articles by W. Edward Farrison on the escaped slave William Wells Brown. A substantial portion of the collection relates to abolitionist John Brown and his descendents. that document abolitionist John Brown and his descendents. These include articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and letters from the Garrison family to Brown's widow and sons and various essays examining myths about John Brown and the historical reality of his motivations and actions.
Abolitionists--United States--History
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African Americans--History--To 1863--Sources
Anti-slavery movements--United States--History--Sources
Slavery--United States--History--Sources
Women abolitionists--United States--History
Brown, John, 1800-1859
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Brown, William Wells, 1815-1884
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758--Sermons
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Garrison family
GENERAL
American Anti-Slavery Almanac (volume 1, #1 -original and use copy), 1836
Anti-Slavery Convention (Philadelphia, 1838): proceedings
Anti-Slavery: articles and pamphlets, 1791-1955
Deeds for the sale of a girl slave, 1820, 1858
Liberator: articles and reprints
Photographs of slaves and emancipated slaves; propaganda, and drawings, n.d.
INDIVIDUALS
John Brown
[See Box 2]
William Wells Brown
Lecture to Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, 1848
Pamphlets by Edward Farrison, 1948-1959
Maria Weston Chapman: letter to Miss Hilditch, circa 1945
Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Archibald Grimke: article, 1968
Thomas T. Stone: address before Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, 1851
George Francis Train: speech in reply to Charles Sumner, 1862
[See Flat File]
ORGANIZATIONS
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society: annual reports, 1836, 1840, 1842
Ladies New York Anti-Slavery Society: "Appeal to the Christian Women of America," 1836
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society: annual reports, 1847-49, 1852, 1853
New Haven Anti-Slavery Society: constitution, 1833
Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society: annual report, 1864
Vigilance Committee of Boston: article by Wilbur H. Siebert, 1953
Tolles, Frederick B., Slavery and the "Woman Question": Lucretia Mott's Diary, 1840 Supplement 23 to Journal of the Friends Historical Society (Friends Historical Association: Pennsylvannia, 1952)
Providence Anti-Slavery Society: constitution and records, 1833-43
JOHN BROWN
A Bibliography of John Brown, by Thomas Featherstonhaugh (includes handwritten copy and published pamphlet), 1897
Articles, clippings, and photos
John Brown Family, Jason Brown, and John Brown Fund: letters, articles, and research
Jeannette Lee: notes
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
Carroll Slave Emancipation Document,1858
Thomas J. Nast: Reconstruction cartoons, circa 1870s
George Francis Train: speech in reply to Charles Sumner (original and use copy), October 16, 1862