Grierson writes to Markham about an array of topics including various social issues and the financial independence of writers and poets and how it restrains them from criticizing certain men and writing about certain topics.
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
One-page letter dated April 13, 1851, from L. [Lysander] Spooner to [George] Bradburn, discussing his idea for Bradburn to stay in Boston by founding a weekly paper called "the Anti-Slavery Constitutionalist."
Sierra Leone Company; African American loyalists--Nova Scotia; African American loyalists--Sierra Leone; African Americans--Colonization--Nova Scotia; African Americans--Colonization--Sierra Leone; Freetown (Sierra Leone) -- History; Abolitionists;...
John Clarkson (1764-1828) was an English abolitionist, agent for the Sierra Leone Company, and lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. The collection consists of Clarkson's manuscripts, written in journal form, of his involvement with the settlement...
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...
