Abolitionists.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 174 Papers of Lewis Tappan
Microfilm copy of original materials in the Library of Congress. Documents include correspondence, journals, miscellaneous materials which relate to Lewis Tappan's activities as an abolitionist leader, and business accomplishments.
Collection 175 Papers of Benjamin Tappan
Microfilm copy of original materials in the Library of Congress. Correspondence, speeches, business papers, genealogical material. Documents deal mostly with Benjamin Tappan's career as jurist and U.S. Senator from Ohio. There is also information on the abolitionist movement, local and national politics, and Tappan's hobbies of mineralogy and conchology.
James E. Burr Collection
Jonathan Blanchard Papers
MSS | Jonathan Blanchard - Secondary
MSS | Speech by Ezra Cook to 39th Regiment in Wheaton, IL, 1889
Owen Lovejoy Family Papers
Small Collection 103 Papers of James Birney
This collection contains one letter from abolitionist leader Birney to S. Silsbee (?) in which Birney gives his opinion on the question whether it was ethical for a missionary to work for a board supported by slaveholders.