TY - GEN AU - Tappan,Lewis TI - Lewis Tappan papers, KW - Adams, John Quincy, KW - Birney, James Gillespie, KW - Douglass, Frederick, KW - Garrison, William Lloyd, KW - Gates, Seth Merrill, KW - Green, Jonathan KW - Hastings, Samuel D. KW - Jay, William, KW - Leavitt, Joshua, KW - Phelps, Amos A. KW - Sedgwick, Theodore, KW - Sturge, Joseph, KW - Tappan, Arthur, KW - Tappan, Benjamin, KW - Whittier, John Greenleaf, KW - Aspinwall family KW - Tappan family. KW - Tappan family KW - American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society KW - American Anti-Slavery Society KW - American Bible Society KW - American Missionary Association KW - Amistad (Schooner) KW - Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848) KW - Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.) KW - Union Missionary Society (U.S.) KW - General Anti-slavery Convention KW - American missionary KW - National era (Washington, D.C.) KW - New York journal of commerce (New York, N.Y.) KW - African Americans KW - Education KW - Antislavery movements KW - Commerce KW - Credit bureaus KW - Credit ratings KW - Religion KW - Slavery KW - Texas KW - History KW - To 1846 KW - Abolitionists KW - itoamc KW - Merchants KW - Publishers N1 - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 16,431; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1975; In part, photocopies; [S.l.]; Oberlin College Library and other repositories N2 - Correspondence, journals, autobiographical notes, scrapbook, and other papers reflecting Tappan's interests in abolition, African American education, religion, and his business ventures. Subjects include the annexation of Texas; the slave ship Amistad (Schooner); Tappan's credit-rating firm, the Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.); and the Tappan family. Includes a diary kept by Tappan while attending the General Anti-slavery Convention, London, Eng., in 1843; and correspondence concerning organizations and publications with which he was associated such as the American Bible Society, American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, American Colonization Society, the American Missionary, American Missionary Association, Liberty Party (U.S.), the National Era (Washington, D.C.), the New York Journal of Commerce (New York, N.Y.), and Union Missionary Society (U.S.); Correspondents include John Quincy Adams, James Gillespie Birney, Frederick Douglass, Seth Merrill Gates, Jonathan Green, Samuel D. Hastings, William Jay, Joshua Leavitt, Amos A. Phelps, Theodore Sedgwick, Joseph Sturge, Arthur Tappan, Benjamin Tappan, John Greenleaf Whittier, and members of the Aspinwall and Tappan families UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010139 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010139.3 ER -