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New York Yearly Meeting collection of papers concerning slavery
Collection — othertype: SC-284
Identifier: SFHL-SC-284
Overview
The collection contains a small number of miscellaneous papers relating to efforts within New York Yearly Meeting to support the manumission of enslaved people, abolition, and education of formerly enslaved people, 1778-1870. Most are copies of reports presented to New York Monthly Meeting or to the Yearly Meeting, compiled as a reference file.
Dates:
1778 - 1870
Joseph Tallcot correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-186
Identifier: SFHL-SC-186
Abstract
Contains five letters from Quaker educator Joseph Talcot, including one to New York Yearly Meeting for Sufferings and four to Samuel Parsons (1744-1841), long-time elder and clerk of New York Yearly Meeting. The letters deal with concerns of the Meeting for Suffering and providing literature to Friends in remote quarterly meetings.
Dates:
1814-1824
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- Quakers -- Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements 1
- Society of Friends -- Antislavery movement 1
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- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings 1
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
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