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Free Produce Association of Friends of New-York Yearly Meeting collected records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-217
Abstract
This collection contains a circular with extracts of the minutes of the Executive Committee of the Free Produce Association of Friends, 1834, which notes its organization in Sixth Month [June] of the previous year; a circular dated 1848 addressed to Isaac Thorne announcing the opening of a store on Pearl Street; and published reports of the Board of Managers, 1849, 1851-1854.
Dates:
1834-1854
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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- Subject: Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York X
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- Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Boycotts -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 1
- Quakers -- Social service -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- United States 1
- Slave labor -- United States 1
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- Sermons 1 ∧ less
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- Free Produce Association of Friends, of New-York Yearly Meeting 1
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 1
- Pierce, Moses, 1816-1886 1
- White, George F., 1789-1847 1
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