Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Sloan, John, 1871-1951; Art patrons--United States--Correspondence.; Art patronage;
Letter written by Juliana Force to Duncan Phillips, dated January 31, 1928, announcing that she has raised the full amount of $5000. Photocopy of original.
Four-page letter and envelope dated August 21, 1881, from Daniel McFarland [possibly in South Bend, Indiana] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, expressing affection and describing his circumstances.
Seven autograph letters (one accompanied by envelope), signed, by Henry Burgh, and one portrait engraving autographed by Burgh. All letters are written on A.S.P.C.A. stationary and most concern the A.S.P.C.A. or cases of animal cruelty. They are...
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...
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...
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Two-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated January 11, 1844, which accompanied a copy of Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery.
