Benjamin Lundy papers, 1814-1906.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 19 itemsSubject(s): - Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 -- Correspondence
- Lundy family -- Correspondence
- Vickers family -- Correspondence
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
- African Americans -- Colonization -- Mexico
- Antislavery movements -- United States
- Freedmen -- Colonization -- Mexico
- Slavery -- United States
- Illinois -- Description and travel
- Abolitionists
- Authors
- Publishers
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Correspondence pertaining chiefly to the antislavery movement. Includes descriptions of Hennepin and Lowell, Illinois, circa 1838-1839. Correspondents include Charles C. Burleigh and members of the Lundy and Vickers families. Other items include a petition to the governor of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico, requesting permission to settle African American families there in 1832; a circular (1837) concerning the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; poems; and an undated biographical sketch of Benjamin Lundy. The collection includes papers of abolitionist Paxson Vickers.
Abolitionist, publisher, and author.
Collection material in English.
Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
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