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Title	New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
Collection title	New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
Series Title	New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
Item ID	nyhs_nyms_v-01_002.jpg
Date of original	1785; 1786; 1787; 1788; 1789; 1790; 1791; 1792; 1793; 1794; 1795; 1796; 1797; 1798; 1799; 1800; 1801; 1802; 1803; 1804; 1805; 1806; 1807; 1808; 1809; 1810; 1811; 1812; 1813; 1814; 1815; 1816; 1817; 1818; 1819; 1820; 1821; 1822; 1823; 1824; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1837; 1838; 1839; 1840; 1841; 1842; 1843; 1844; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848; 1849
Creator	New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them has Have Been, or May Be Liberated
Institution	New-York Historical Society
Description	New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was dissolved in 1849, provided legal and financial assistance to individual slaves seeking manumission and supported efforts to enforce laws banning the sale of slaves in New York State. Meeting minutes, commission reports, financial records, indentures, registers, and miscellaneous records of the New-York Manumission Society, dating from the year of the Societys organization in 1785 to that of its dissolution in 1849. Minutes of the Societys quarterly meetings, standing committee, and ways amd means committee concern such topics as political activities of the Society, Society finances, efforts to enact legal reforms aimed at abolishing the slave trade in New York and preventing the exportation of slaves, reports on individual cases of slaves in need of assistance in negotiating their freedom, the protection of manumitted slaves, reports and decisions concerning the Societys sponsorship and operation of the African Free School and houses of refuge for the benefit of New Yorks African American population, appointments, elections, etc. Records also include an account book, 1819-1849, kept by the treasurer of the Society; a register of manumissions of slaves in New York City, 1816 Jun. 18-1818 May 28; indentures, 1809-1829, drawn up for slaves granted the status of indentured servants with the assistance of the Society; and miscellaneous minutes and reports, including papers pertaining to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Some of the Societys active members were: Robert C. Cornell, W. W. Woolsey, Nehemiah Allen, Melancton Smith, William T. Slocum, Samuel Bowne, Adrian Hegeman, Willet Seaman, Thomas Burling, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Duane, John Murray, Jr., William Dunlap, Alexander McDougall, Noah Webster, Egbert Benson, and many others.
Subject	New-York African Free-School American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc. African Americans--Education--New York (State)--New York Antislavery movements--New York (State)--New York Slaves--Emancipation--New York (State) Slavery--New York (State) Slave trade--New York (State)--New York
Material type of original	Account books Indentures Registers (lists) Reports
Publisher of digital	New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 212-873-3400
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.

Title	Minutes of the Ways and Means Committee, 1810-1838, p. 1-2
Collection title	New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
Series Title	New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
Item ID	nyhs_nyms_v-01_002.jpg
Date of original	1810; 1811; 1812; 1813; 1814; 1815; 1816; 1817; 1818; 1819; 1820; 1821; 1822; 1823; 1824; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1837; 1838
Creator	New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them has Have Been, or May Be Liberated
Institution	New-York Historical Society
Material type of original	Minute books
Publisher of digital	New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 212-873-3400
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.

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