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Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated, list of members
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-212
Abstract
Contains a membership list providing names, addresses, and year joined. Also a statement of the number of Africans and their descendants who had been freed and the number attending the free school in New York City, 1791-1814. The list was kept by Isaac T. Hopper.
Dates:
1787-1827
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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- Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
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- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
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- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Names
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
- Barney, Nathaniel 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 1
- Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912 1
- Combe, George, 1788-1858 1
- Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887 1
- Davis, Maria Mott 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Dugdale, Ruth 1
- Earle, Mary Hussey 1
- Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896 1
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 1
- Grew, Mary, 1813-1896 1
- Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 1
- Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-1913 1
- Hallowell, Mary 1
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 1
- Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Johnson, Oliver, 1821-1907 1
- Lord, George 1
- Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916 1
- Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 1
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 1
- Marriott, Charles 1
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 1
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 1
- McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 1
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Needles, Elizabeth 1
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 1
- New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated 1
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1
- Parker, Emma Parker, 1817-1898 1
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 1
- Pierce, Moses, 1816-1886 1
- Potter, William J. (William James), 1829?-1893 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 1
- Stevenson, Thomas B., 1810-1863 1
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 1
- Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907 1
- Webb, Richard Davis 1
- Webb, Ruth D. 1
- White, George F., 1789-1847 1
- Willets, Amos, 1792-1864 1
- Willets, Samuel 1
- Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885 1 ∧ less
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