Four-page circular for distribution to readers of The Liberator, soliciting donations and additional subscribers. Includes quotes of praise from several well-known abolitionists, such as Gerrit Smith and George Thompson.
List of donors, most by name and some with their place of residence [probably to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] during a May 29, 1839 meeting at Charden [?] Street.
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York; Antislavery movements--New York (State)--New York; Slavery--Virignia--Williamsburg; Slave trade--Virignia--Williamsburg;...
Letter from Arthur G. Homer, of New York City, to Francis Jackson asking for funds to help purchase two slaves belonging to a Williamsburg, Virginia, planter William Havis. They are the wife and child of a free black residing in New York, who has...
Seven-page letter and envelope dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his dismay at the negative tone of their...
Two-page letter and envelope dated January 29, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May, New Jersey, to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, describing his travel to New Jersey.
Three-page letter and envelope dated February 26, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May, New Jersey, to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, discussing a letter received by him from Charles D. Cleveland regarding financial support for Drayton...
Two-page letter dated April 5, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner, discussing Drayton's correspondence with Charles D. Cleveland.
One-page letter and envelope dated August 10, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, discussing his health, plans to travel to Boston, and asking for funds.
One-page letter and envelope dated September 5, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, regarding his health and noting that he has "never heard a word from friend Cleveland sicne you Boston...
Four-page letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Andrew Robeson soliciting donations to operate the anti-slavery publication The Liberator, under the management of Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Edmund Quincy, William Bassett, and Loring.
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States
4-page letter from Francis Jackson and Edmund Quincy to Wendell Phillips, giving a statement of affairs [either of the American Anti-Slavery Society or the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society]. Back of address sheet signed by Ellis Gray Loring.
Four-page letter from Francis Jackson, Charles T. Hildreth, Thomas B. Sewall, and Ellis Gray Loring of Boston [Massachusetts] to Abbott Lawrence inquiring about his political position on slavery in the United States Congress.
Two-page letter from Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Ellis Gray Loring, William Bassett, and Edmund Quincy of Boston, [Massachusetts] to an unnamed addressee soliciting funds for the operation of The Liberator, an explaining a new subscription...
Four-page letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay detailing the escape of slave [Henry 'Box' Brown] from Richmond [Virginia] to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] via overland express in a box. M'Kim requests that Gay refrain from publishing the story, and...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Ohio--Cleveland; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated January 4, 1848, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing Bradburn's editorial position at the paper [The Pioneer] and other abolitionist news.
Two-page response letter from Abott Lawrence to Francis Jackson, Charles T. Hildreth, Thomas B. Sewall, and Ellis Gray Loring of Boston [Massachusetts] regarding his political position on slavery in the United States Congress.