Antislavery Movements
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Ann Thomas to Mrs. E.B. Smith, 1862
Item — Box 6: [Barcode: SC 46, Box 1], Folder: 8, Item: 24
Identifier: 8.24
Scope and Contents
Talks about giving help to freed slaves.
Dates:
1862
Bell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-46
Scope and Contents
The Bell Family papers document the lives of Quakers in Ireland and the United States. Most of the papers concern William Bell, a Quaker cotton manufacturer and editor of Belfast, Ireland, New York City, Cincinnati, and Richmond, Indiana.
The Bell Papers include several types of documents. Most of the correspondence dates from the period 1811-1813, being copies of letters to William Bell from his mother, apparently written while he was away from home attending school, and from the 1840s. The...
Dates:
1754-1967; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1965
Elizabeth Pease to James Canning Fuller, 1845
Item — Box 6: [Barcode: SC 46, Box 1], Folder: 6, Item: 2
Identifier: 6.2
Scope and Contents
transcription, background info
Dates:
1845
Embree-Thorn Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-80
Scope and Contents
The Embree-Thorn Collection consist of letters, essays, wills, and deeds from two Quaker families in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Ohio, mainly between 1774 and 1860. They reflect especially the westward movement, antislavery activities, and business transactions of Friends.
Dates:
1774-1997; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1997
Huff-Nixon Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-15
Scope and Contents
The Huff-Nixon family papers consist of correspondence, legal and business papers, reminiscences, clippings, and genealogical materials of five generations of Quaker families in North Carolina and Indiana. Most of the material concerns the families of Samuel Nixon (1781-1865), his son-in-law Daniel Huff (1816-1899), and his son Dr. Oliver Nixon Huff (1852-1937) of Fountain City, Indiana, and Oliver Nixon Huff's wife, Sophia (Bogue) Huff (1866-1931).
The oldest material in the Nixon-Huff Papers...
Dates:
1760-1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1980
Josiah Parker Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-24
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, account books, and business papers of Josiah Parker, a leading Quaker, farmer, and miller of the Richsquare community of Northampton County, North Carolina. It is rich in materials on Quaker life in North Carolina, the Quaker migration from North Carolina to Ohio and Indiana, the antislavery activities of North Carolina Friends, and the work of Friends in helping free people of color move from North Carolina and Virginia to Indiana.
The Josiah Parker...
Dates:
1787-1836; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1991
Levi Coffin Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-54
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers found in the attic of the Coffin house in Fountain City (1825-42), a copy of Coffin's will, numerous clippings relating to Levi Coffin and the Coffin house in Fountain City, and papers of the family of Levi's cousin Emory Dunreith Coffin (1824-63), whose daughter Louisa May was the ghostwriter for Levi Coffin's Reminiscences (1876).
Dates:
1825-1876
North Carolina Manumission Society
Collection
Identifier: FRG-4
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the minutes and records of the North Carolina Manumission Society.
Dates:
Other: Add Date
Vernon Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-48
Scope and Contents
The Vernon Family Papers consist of correspondence, business documents, and genealogical material relating to the family of Richard Vernon (1789-1877) of Stokes County, NC and Jefferson County, IN. The correspondence includes letters from relatives in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina with comments on farming, slavery, business, and the coming of the Civil War.
Dates:
1849-1990