Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839.

Benjamin Lundy papers, 1814-1906. - 19 items.

Open to research.

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.

mm 79005860


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.