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Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Pennsylvania Hall Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-074
Overview
The Pennsylvania Hall Association was a stockholders association formed in 1837 to erect a building in Philadelphia dedicated “to Liberty and the Rights of Man.” Many of the primary movers behind the Association were Quakers involved in the anti-slavery movement. The building was opened on May 14, 1838, and, as a symbol of the abolitionist movement, was destroyed by an angry mob on May 17, 1838. This collection contains minutes of the Board of Managers of the Association, 1838-1847, financial...
Dates:
1837-1899 (bulk 1837-1849)
Moses Pierce correspondence with George F. White
Collection
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 the...
Dates:
1839-1926 (bulk 1842-1846)
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- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hopkins, Elizabeth 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Janney family 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
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- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
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- Neall, Daniel, 1784-1846 1
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
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- Pierce, Moses, 1816-1886 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
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