Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Illinois--Chicago; Antislavery movements--United States
Three-page letter dated April 22, 1861, from Wm. [William] Brackett in Chicago [Illinois], to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts], giving his opinion of several pamphlets by Spooner and the political mood of Chicago.
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated November 8, 1861, discussing Spooner's correspondence with Mr. [Samuel?] Howe.
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to L. [Lysander] Spooner dated January 31, 1861, dicussing an extradition case in Canada involving slave [John] Anderson.
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Two-page letter and envelope from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated April 1, 1861, acknowledging receipt of Spooner's "New System" [A New System of Paper Currency] and discussing the "making of banks."
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
One-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner, dated February 26, 1861, discussing the speech of Senator [Wilson?] on slavery "as law."
One-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner, dated November 20, 1861, acknowleding the receipt of Spooner's "The Sewing Machine Fraud."
Extradition--Canada--Toronto; Fugitive slaves--Canada-Toronto; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Two-page letter from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated January 1, 1861, in which he thanks Smith for his visit to Candada and disucsses other abolitionist news.
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
One-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to George M. Searle regarding Lysander Spooner's "book on currency" [A New System of Paper Currency].
One-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated October 19, 1861, thanking him for copies of letters between Spooner, [Samuel] Sewall, amd [Samuel?] Howe.
Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Jordans Mill, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia] regarding the poor slave trade market and relaying a story heard about the Battle of Manassas.
