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The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-051
Overview
The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of Free People of Color was a Quaker society in New York City, organized in 1839. Its purpose was to support the abolition of slavery and educational charities for blacks. This small collection contains a minute book (6/1839-5/1843) and loose minutes (1844).
Dates:
1839-1844
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Overview
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
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- Slavery -- United States 8
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 5
- Antislavery movements 4
- Abolitionists 3
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 3
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 3
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 3
- Abolitionists -- United States 2
- Antislavery movements -- United States 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Quakers -- Delaware 2
- Quakers -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 2
- Quakers -- Virginia 2
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century 2
- Society of Friends -- Antislavery movement 2
- Society of Friends -- History 2
- diaries 2
- African Americans -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- African Americans -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- American literature -- Quaker authors 1
- American poetry -- Quaker authors 1
- Antislavery Movements -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History 1
- Boarding Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Canada -- Description and Travel 1
- Capital punishment 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with prostitutes 1
- Education -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Farm life -- Delaware 1
- Free produce movement 1
- Freedmen -- Virginia 1
- Freedmen -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions 1
- Jewish women 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
- Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel -- 18th century 1
- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
- Mining -- Arizona 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Poetry -- Women authors 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Progressive Quakers 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker prison reformers 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Quakers 1
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- Quakers -- Alaska 1
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- Quakers -- Education 1
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- Quakers -- Great Britain 1
- Quakers -- Ireland 1
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- Quakers -- New England 1
- Quakers -- New Jersey 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
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- Quakers -- North Carolina 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- Poetry 1
- Quakers -- Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements 1
- Quakers -- Social service 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Quakers -- United States 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Sermons, American 1
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- Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States 1
- Slavery -- United States -- Societies, etc 1
- Social problems -- United States 1
- Social reform 1
- Social reformers 1
- Social reformers -- 19th century 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Social service -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
- Society of Friends -- Ireland 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- New England 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 2
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 2
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 2
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- Alston, John, 1794-1874 1
- American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race 1
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Biddle, Mary, 1780-1849 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1767-1834 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 1
- Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Dillwyn family 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 1
- Elizabeth Pearsall Frazier (1869-1957) 1
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 1
- Emlen family 1
- Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
- Emlen, James, 1792-1866 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Emlen, Samuel, 1829-1920 1
- Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
- Ferris family 1
- Ferris, Anna M., 1815-1890 1
- Ferris, David, 1821-1908 1
- Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833 1
- Ferris, Henry 1
- Ferris, John, 1775-1802 1
- Ferris, Matilda, 1853-1937 1
- Ferris, Ziba, 1743-1794 1
- Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Frazier family 1
- Friends Boarding School Association 1
- Garrett, Thomas, 1789-1871 1
- Gibbons, Mary, 1795-1876 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hopkins, Elizabeth 1
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1810-1902 1
- Hunn, John, 1818-1894 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Janney family 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
- Jewett, Tacy M. 1
- Johnson, Jane 1
- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Joshua Evans (1731-1798) 1
- Karsner family 1
- Karsner, Katherine Hunn, 1899-1993 1
- Kegler, Mary Ann Hunn Karsner, 1932-1983 1
- Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
- Lord, Nathan, 1792-1870 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Mott, Thomas 1
- Neall, Daniel, 1784-1846 1
- Parrish family 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Pearsall family 1
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society 1
- Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 1
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
- Pusey family 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860 1
- Rosine Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Sharpless, Townsend 1
- Shillitoe, Thomas, 1754-1836 1
- The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
- Thomas, Philip W. 1
- Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859 1
- Truman, George 1
- Truman, Joseph M. 1
- Tuke, Esther, 1727-1794 1
- Valentino, Carmen 1
- Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 1
- Webb, Samuel 1
- Westtown Boarding School 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1 ∧ less
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