Guide to Documents on Ante-Bellum Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement
Collection Summary
Title: Documents on Ante-Bellum Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement Call Number: MS 88-19 Size: 0.25 linear feet Acquisition: Source unknown. Processed by: LTM, 11/2/1987; JEF, 2/18/1998
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Eight autograph signed letters from Henry L. Stimson to "B. W." (Bronson Winthrop), a boyhood friend, constitute this collection. The letters date from November 17, 1911 to March 17, 1930. Most were written from the Western Front in France in 1918, where Stimson was a colonel of field artillery in the American Expeditionary Forces. He describes training centers and camps, and the German offensive of March and April 1918. Stimson also served as Secretary of War under Presidents William Howard Taft (1911-12) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940-45), and Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover (1929-33).
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Contains the manumission papers for "Milly" from William F. Hardy, dated July 6, 1814. |
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Contains the deed of sale of a slave bought by Henry Slim from Sarah Coomes, dated February 13, 1815. |
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Contains the order of services at the first anniversary of the kidnaping of Thomas Sims, dated April 12, 1852. |
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Contains a short letter from Owen Lovejoy, dated March 25, 1859 from Princeton. Lovejoy states that he sent the unknown addressee a copy of his speech. |
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Contains a copy of the petition in the case of James Hickman vs. Pierce Buffington at the Boone County Circuit Court in Columbia, Missouri, dated April 8, 1864. The petition states that Pierce Buffington, Defendant was using and hiring runaway slaves that belonged to James Hickman, Plantiff. Plantiff is suing for damages. |
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Contains an invitation to E. Richards to the 50th Anniversary of the mobbing of William Lloyd Garrison in the streets of Boston, October 21, 1835. This invitation was sent from the Garrison Lyceum, a Literary Association of Colored Young Black Men and Women that helped advance the cause for Blacks in the 1800s. Garrison was a famous journalist, reformer, and abolitionist of the 1830s. In 1832, he formed the first society for the immediate abolition of slavery. In 1835, Garrison's life was endangered by a mob in Boston. The invitation was sent out October 14, 1885. |
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Contains a leaflet entitled "Anti-Slavery History: Letter to Reverend E. N. Packard, Pastor to the Second Church in Dorchester" by Hiram W. Blanchard Neponset, May 1883. Blanchard says that Packard's sermon on anti-slavery history was not entirely accurate in its treatment of the movement. |
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Contains a souvenir booklet on Frederick Douglass and his home in Anacostia, D.C. The booklet contains four photographic copied prints. Douglass was a leading spokesman of American blacks in the 19th century. Born a slave, Douglass became a noted author and speaker. He devoted his life to the abolition of slavery and the fight for blacks’ civil rights ad legal equality. |
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Contains a copy of Douglass’ newspaper, Frederick Douglass’ Paper, Rochester, N.Y., April 6, 1860. |