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Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1190
Overview
Letters relating to the emigration of free Blacks to the West African colony of Liberia and establishment of Liberian institutions written to American Quaker reformer, Benjamin Coates (1808-1887) whose work toward the abolition of slavery led to a relationship with many well-known people connected to Liberia, a colony established to offer a new home and a fresh start away from slavery to free Blacks in the mid-19th century.
Dates:
1848-1880; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1869
Sarah Cooper Tatum Hilles family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1213
Abstract
The Sarah Cooper Tatum Hilles family papers house the correspondence of a Quaker family who lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Woodbury, New Jersey; Wilmington, Delaware; and other surrounding areas from approximately 1840 to 1882. A majority of the letters were written to or by Sarah Cooper Tatum Hilles; her husband, John Smith Hilles; and other Tatum or Hilles family members. There is a small sampling of assorted family papers, dating from 1825 to 1901. Included, among other items, are...
Dates:
Bulk, 1840-1882 1791-1930; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1882
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- Names: Hilles, William Samuel, 1825-1876 X
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- African American social reformers 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- Education 1
- Haverford (Pa.) 1
- Liberia -- History 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wills 1
- Wilmington (Del.) 1
- biographies (documents) 1
- correspondence 1
- deeds 1
- diaries 1
- estate records 1
- family papers 1
- financial records 1
- military passes 1
- school records 1 ∧ less
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- American Colonization Society 1
- Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908 1
- Blyden, Edward 1
- Carter, John, 1800-1877 1
- Cary, Mary Ann Shadd 1
- Chase, Thomas 1
- Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
- Coppinger, William 1
- Crummell, Alex 1
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 1
- Evans, William, 1787-1867 1
- Freeman, Martin, 1826?-1889 1
- Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen 1
- Garnet, Henry Highland 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hilles, John Smith, 1830-1875 1
- Hilles, Margaret Hill Smith, 1786-1882 1
- Hilles, Samuel, 1788-1873 1
- Hilles, Sarah Cooper Tatum 1
- Hilles, Sarah Lancaster 1
- Hilles, William Samuel, 1865-1928 1
- Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 1
- Pinney, John Brooke 1
- Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
- Roberts, Joseph Jenkins 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Smith, Jane B. 1
- Tatum, Ann Cooper, d. 1834 1
- Tatum, John Cooper 1
- Tatum, Joseph 1
- Tracy, Joseph, 1793?-1874 1
- Westtown Boarding School 1
- Whipper, William 1 ∧ less
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