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Letter from James Miller M'Kim, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], to Mary Anne Estlin, 1853 Oct[ober] 18
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Christianity; Correspondence; England; Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855; Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902; Fugitive Slaves; Great Britain; History; Lectures And Lecturing; M'kim, J. Miller (James Miller) 1810 1874; Meetings; Newspapers; Pennsylvania Anti Slavery Society; Publishers And Publishing; Publishing; Religious Aspects; Slaver; Slavery And The Church; Slaves; Societies; Societies, Etc; Still, William 1821 1902; Underground Railroad; United States; Women; Women Abolitionists; Women Social Reformers
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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Sep[tember] 9 1854
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Abolitionists; American Anti Slavery Society; Antislavery Movements; Civil Disobedience; Congresses; Congresses And Conventions; Correspondence; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879; History; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871; New York; Parker, Theodore 1810 1860; Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884; Slaver; Social Reformers; Stone, Lucy 1818 1893; Syracuse States School (N.Y.); United States; Vigilance Committees; Women; Women Abolitionists; Yerrinton, J. M. W. (James Manning Winchell) 1893
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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Sep[tember] 11. 1853
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus) 1810 1878; Chaplin, William L. (William Lawrence) 1796 1871; Civil Disobedience; Correspondence; Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879; History; Jackson, James C. 1811 1895; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871; New York; Parker, Theodore 1810 1860; Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884; Slaver; Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874; Social Reformers; Stone, Lucy 1818 1893; United States; Vigilance Committees; Women; Women Abolitionists
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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Henry Clarke Wright, March 1, 1843
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Abolitionists; Adams, John Quincy 1767 1848; Antislavery Movements; Capital Punishment; Cheever, George B. (George Barrell) 1807 1890; Correspondence; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, James Holley 1801 1842; Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879; History; Interracial Marriage; Latimer, George; Law And Legislation; Massachusetts; Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1807 1897; Non Resistant; O'sullivan, John L. (John Louis) 1813 1895; Slaver; United States; Wesselhoeft, Robert 1797 1852; Wright, Henry Clarke 1797 1870
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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Waterloo, [NY], to Helen Eliza Garrison, Nov. 21, 1842
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Abolitionists; Antislavery Movements; Burtis, Lewis B. Ca. 1793 1868; Chaplin, William L. (William Lawrence) 1796 1871; Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879; Correspondence; Ferris, Jacob; Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876; Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879; Hathaway, Joseph C; History; Jackson, James C. 1811 1895; Latimer, George; Mc Clintock, Thomas 1792? 1876; Post, Isaac 1798 1872; Slaver; Stewart, Alvan 1790 1849; Third Parties (United States Politics); United States
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Session of November-December 1789: Joint Standing Committees: Committee of Propositions and Grievances, Nov. 30 -- Dec. 9
North Carolina. General Assembly
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American Loyalists; Beaufort County (N.C.); Bladen County (N.C.); Burke County (N.C.); Camden County (N.C.); Cape Fear River (N.C.); Chatham County (N.C.); Cities And Towns; Debt Relief; Finance, Public; Fugitive Slaves; Government; History; Military Supplies; Moravians; Mountflorence, James C; Nash County (N.C.); New Hanover County (N.C.); North Carolina; North Carolina. General Assembly; North Carolina. Militia; Northampton County (N.C.); Orange County (N.C.); Politics And Government; Prisoners Of War; Robeson County (N.C.); Rutherford County (N.C.); Sheriffs; Slaver; Slaves; Taxation; United States; Walker, John, 1741 1813
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Letter to] Dear Anne [manuscript
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Antislavery Movements; Dean, Rev; Dexter, Franklin, 1793 1857; Free Soil Party (Mass.); French, Rodney; Grant, Charles; Perkins, Jonas; Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813 1886; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Quincy, Edmund, 1808 1877; Quincy, Josiah, 1802 1882; Railroads; Rantoul, Robert, 1805 1852; Shaw, Lemuel, 1781 1861; Sims, Thomas, Fugitive Slave; Slaver; Snow, Donald; Ticknor, George, 1791 1871; Weston, Anne Warren, 1812 1890; Weston, Deborah, B. 1814; Weston, Hervey Eliphaz, 1817 1882; Weston, R. Warren, (Richard Warren. 1819 1873; Women; Women Abolitionists
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Letter to] Dear Caroline [manuscript
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Antislavery Movements; Apthorpe, Robert; Devens, Charles, 1820 1891; Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895; Elliot, Samuel; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, B. 1831; Lind, Jenny, 1820 1887; Parker, Theodore, 1810 1860; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Quincy, Josiah, 1772 1864; Sargent, Henrietta; Slaver; Thompson, George, 1804 1878; United States; Webster, Daniel, 1782 1852; Weston, Caroline, 1808 1882; Weston, Deborah, B. 1814; Weston, Emma Forbes, B. 1825; Women; Women Abolitionists
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Letter to] Dear Garrison [manuscript
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Abolitionists; African American Abolitionists; African Americans; Antislavery Movements; Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810 1878; Chaplin, William L. (William Lawrence), 1796 1871; Civil Disobedience; Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895; Fugitive Slaves; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879; Jackson, James C., 1811 1895; Jerry Rescue Convention (1853 : Syracuse, N.Y.); May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797 1871; Parker, Theodore, 1810 1860; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Slaver; Smith, Gerrit, 1797 1874; Social Reformers; Stone, Lucy, 1818 1893; United States; Vigilance Committees; Women; Women Abolitionists
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Christian pamphlets Vol. 13
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American Congregational Union; Bible. O.T. Ezekiel Xxxvii, 1 14; Christianity; Church And Education; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Civilization; Commentaries; Compromise Of 1850; Conduct Of Life; Connecticut; Consecration Of Cemeteries; Education; Faith; First Trinitarian Congregational Church (St. Louis, Mo.); Fourth Of July; Government; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Norwalk; Philosophy; Politics And Government; Preaching; Progress; Religious Aspects; Restoration; Rhetoric; Shipwrecks; Slaver; Slavery; Slavery And The Church; Spooner, Lysander, 1808 1887.. Unconstitutionality Of Slavery; Stoddard, Solomon, 1771 1860; Truth; United States; United States. Fugitive Slave Law (1850); Webster, Daniel, 1782 1852; Young Men
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Draft of politics chapter
Bunton, Mathilde L
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African American Legislators; African Americans; African Americans In The Civil Service; Bird, I. I; Carey, Archibald J. (Archibald James), 1868 1931; Civil Rights; De Priest, Oscar, 1871 1951; Dickerson, Earl B., 1891 1986; Government; Government & Politics; Illinois; Illinois History & Culture; Jones, John, 1816 1879; Jones, Theodore Wellington; Law & Criminal Justice; Legislators; Mitchell, Arthur Wergs, 1883 1968; Political Activity; Politics And Government; Press Coverage; Sherman, Esau; Slaver; Suffrage; Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847 1918; United States; United States. Fugitive Slave Law (1850); Wright, Edward H., 1863 1930
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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [New York], to Mary Anne Estlin, 1863 Dec[ember] 13
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Abolitionists; African Americans; American Anti Slavery Society; Antislavery Movements; Beecher, Henry Ward 1813 1887; Christianity; Civil Rights; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Correspondence; Education; Emancipation; England; Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902; Foreign Public Opinion; Freedman's Relief Association; Freedmen; Fugitive Slaves; Great Britain; History; Lectures And Lecturing; May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871; Meetings; Newspapers; Political Aspects; Publishers And Publishing; Publishing; Race Relations; Religious Aspects; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Social Justice; Societies; Societies, Etc; States' Rights (American Politics); Thompson, George 1804 1878; United States; Women; Women Abolitionists; Women Social Reformers
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Newspaper articles on slavery
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African Americans; Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806 1881; Chicago; Cincinnati; Civil War; Civil War, 1861 1865; Compensation (Law); Confiscations And Contributions; Conscript Labor; Democratic Party (Mo.); Discrimination; Discrimination In Public Accommodations; Editorials; Emancipation; Employment; Equality; Fugitive Slaves; History; Illinois; Indiana; Justification; Kansas; Law And Legislation; Leavenworth; Meetings; Newspapers; Ohio; Participation, African American; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Population; Relocation; Richardson, John Peter, 1801 1864; Secession; Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820 1891; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Social Conflict; Social Stratification; Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio); Suffrage; Toussaint Louverture, 1743 1803; United States
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Newspaper articles on slavery
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African American Slaveholders; African American Teachers; African Americans; Ashanti (African People); Canada; Centenarians; Child Slaves; Convict Labor; Discrimination; Discrimination In Public Accommodations; Family Relationships; Fraternal Organizations; Freedmen; Fugitive Slaves; Germany; Gordon, Charles George, 1833 1885; Law And Legislation; Legal Status, Laws, Etc; May December Romances; Missouri; Moral And Ethical Aspects; Newspapers; Obituaries; Pacific Ocean; Plantations; Restitution; Segregation; Sharecropping; Shipwrecks; Slave Ships; Slave Trade; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Southern States; Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American; Sudan; Tahiti (Brigantine); Tennessee; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811 1863; Travel; United States; United States. Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands; Vagrancy; Virginia; Women; Women Slaves
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Notes on Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church
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African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Anniversaries, Etc; Chicago; Church Dedication; Concerts; Congresses; Discrimination; Eads, J. W., Reverend; Finance; Hall, A. T., Reverend; History; Horton, Isabella; Illinois; Illinois History & Culture; Jenifer, John Thomas, Reverend; Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843 1926; Milwaukee; Milwaukee (Wis.); Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Chicago, Ill.); Newspapers; Olivet Baptist Church (Chicago, Ill.); Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church (Chicago, Ill.); Quinn, William Paul, 1788 1873; Race Discrimination; Race Relations; Religion; Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre; Slaver; Social Conditions; St. Stephen's A.M.E. Church (Chicago, Ill.); Townsend, J. M., Reverend; Underground Railroad; United States; United States. Fugitive Slave Law (1850); United States. President (1861 1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation; Wisconsin; Women; Zoar Baptist Church (Chicago, Ill.)
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Senate Joint Resolutions: Apr.-June, 1784
North Carolina. General Assembly
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Annuities; Appointment To Office; Bertie County (N.C.); Bladen County (N.C.); Coroners; Crime; Depreciation; Elections; Executions And Executioners; Fugitive Slaves; Gates County (N.C.); Government; Halifax County (N.C.); Hertford County (N.C.); Hillsborough (N.C.); Justices Of The Peace; Legislation; Legislators; Monopolies; Murder; North Carolina; North Carolina. Council Of State; North Carolina. General Assembly; North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate; North Carolina. Inferior Court Of Pleas And Quarter Sessions; Northampton County (N.C.); Parliamentary Practice; Politics And Government; Promissory Notes; Rowan County (N.C.); Rutherford, Griffith; Salisbury (N.C.); Slaver; Tax Exemption; United States; United States. Continental Congress; Wake County (N.C.); Wounds And Injuries
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1840 House Journal, First Session
Missouri House of Representatives
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Bank Of Missouri; Capitol Fire; Constitutional Limitations; Fugitive Slave Laws; Government; History; House Of Representatives; Insurance Law; Internal Improvements; Iowa; Missouri; Missouri Boundary Dispute; Missouri Governor's Mansion (Jefferson City, Mo.); Missouri State Capitol (Jefferson City, Mo.); Missouri State Library; Missouri State Penitentiary; Missouri. Boggs, Lilburn Williams (1796 1860); Missouri. Office Of The Secretary Of State; Mormon Wars; Mormons; New Orleans, Battle Of, New Orleans, La., 1815; Oliver, Mordecai (1819 1898); Politics And Government; Public Debt; Reynolds, Thomas (1796 1844); River Navigation; Slaver; Slavery; Supreme Court Of Missouri; Taylor, Zachary (1784 1850); Universities; University Of Missouri; Virginia
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Incomplete letter to] Dear Anne [manuscript
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Antislavery Movements; Bearse, Austin; Chapman, Mary Gray, 1798 1874; Colver, Nathaniel, 1794 1870; Fifield, Mary; Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803 1858; Parker, Theodore, 1810 1860; Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813 1886; Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884; Quincy, Edmund, 1808 1877; Rantoul, Robert, 1805 1852; Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799 1888; Sims, Thomas, Fugitive Slave; Slaver; Vigilance Committee (Boston, Mass.); Webster, Daniel, 1782 1852; Weston, Anne Warren, 1812 1890; Weston, Deborah, B. 1814; Weston, R. Warren, (Richard Warren. 1819 1873; Weston, Warren, 1780 1855; Women; Women Abolitionists
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A.M.E. Church Convention, with drafts, (Toronto, Canada,) 1983 September 28
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African American Mayors; African American Politicians; African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Church; African Methodist Episcopal Church. Fourth Episcopal District; Anniversaries, Etc; Brown, John, 1800 1859; Canada; Chicago; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movements; Congressional Black Caucus; Democratic Party (U.S.); Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868 1963; Election; Fugitive Slaves; Gibson, Kenneth A; Government; Hatcher, Richard G., 1933 2019; Henson, Josiah, 1789 1883; History; Illinois; Jackson, Maynard, 1938 2003; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968. I Have A Dream; Le Jeune, Olivier; March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.); Mayors; National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People; Niagara Movement (Organization); Platforms; Politics And Government; Presidents; Slaver; Social Conditions; Stokes, Carl; Suffrage; Underground Railroad; United States; Voter Registration; Young, Coleman A
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House Joint Resolutions: Nov. 22-Dec. 29
North Carolina. General Assembly
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Arnett & Hodge; Attorneys General; Avery, Waightstill, 1741 1821; Boundaries; Caswell, Richard, 1729 1789; Charleston (S.C.); Chowan County (N.C.); Committees; Contracts For Deeds; Edgecombe County (N.C.); Fugitive Slaves; Government; Governors; Henderson, Richard, 1735 1785; History; Justices Of The Peace; Land Grants; Land Titles; Legislation; Legislative Bodies; Martin County (N.C.); Merchants; Military Supplies; Militia; Misconduct In Office; New Bern (N.C.); North Carolina; North Carolina. Department Of State Treasurer; North Carolina. General Assembly; North Carolina. General Assembly. House Of Commons; Nova Scotia; Parliamentary Practice; Politics And Government; Poll Tax; Printers; Prisoners Of War; Registration And Transfer; Revolution, 1775 1783; Secretaries Of State (State Governments); Slaver; Slaves; Stanly, John Wright, 1742 1789; Surveyors; Tax Exemption; Taxation; United States; United States. Continental Congress; Virginia; Warrants (Law)
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