New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Sarah Hopper Palmer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-115
Overview
Sarah Hopper Palmer (1796-1885) was the eldest child of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), noted Hicksite Quaker abolitionist and social reformer. The collection was apparently compiled as a basis for Lydia Maria Child's Life of Isaac T. Hopper, which was first published in 1853. The original manuscript of the published book is included in the collection. The collection contains material on the Palmer, Hunn and Jenkins families, family correspondence, legal and...
Dates:
1705-1883
Moses Pierce correspondence with George F. White
Collection — Othertype SC-238
Identifier: SFHL-SC-238
Abstract
The collections contains correspondence between George F. White and Moses Pierce in which Pierce asks White to clarify his views on abolition, temperance, and peace. White does not agree with abolitionists who want an immediate end to slavery, and he thinks that Great Britain's Abolition of Slavery Act was a ill-conceived. He notes the wretched conditions of factories and mines in England and Scotland as other forms of slavery. Pierce, in copies or drafts of the letters he sent, argues that...
Dates:
1839-1926 (bulk 1842-1846)
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- Quaker abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- United States 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
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