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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
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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- 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
- Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 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
- 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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