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1Author:  Wyck AssociationRequires cookie*
 Title:  Wyck Association Collection     
 Dates:  1663-1972 
 Abstract:  With emphases on religion, education, and social concerns, the correspondence in the Wyck collection contains numerous references to African Americans. These issues emerge in the correspondence of Caspar Wistar Haines I, Hannah Marshall Haines, Reuben Haines III, Jane Bowne Haines I, Robert Bowne Haines I, and Caspar Wistar Haines II.See below for more specific subject references within the letters. The collection also contains a series of writings: diaries, essays, journals, notebooks, and poetry. Of particular interest are the papers describing the exploits of a runaway slave, Henry Hudson, in 1819. 
 Call #:  Mss.Ms.Coll.52 
 Extent:  151.5 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | Accounts. | Agriculture | Bills (financial). | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Culture, community, organizations | Deeds | Diaries. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Haines family | Haines, Ann, 1793-1869 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1762-18 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1853-1935 | Haines, Hannah Marshall, 1765- | Haines, Jane B., 1869-1937 | Haines, Jane Bowne, 1790-1843 | Haines, Jane Reuben, 1832-1911 | Haines, John Smith, 1820-1886 | Haines, Margaret Vaux Wistar, 1831-1917 | Haines, Margaret Wistar, 1728- | Haines, Mary T., 1892- | Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793 | Haines, Reuben, 1786-1831 | Haines, Robert B., 1827-1895 | Haines, Robert B., 1893-1967 | Hartshorne, Catherine Haines, | Home economics -- United States -- Accounting | Horticulture | Institutional Records | Jansen family | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Miscellaneous | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs | Philadelphia History | Photoprints | Quakers | Race, race relations, racism | Receipts | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Science and technology | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social problems. | Trade | Wistar family | Wyck House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 
2Author:  Hare, Robert, 1781-1858Requires cookie*
 Title:  Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858     
 Dates:  1764-1858 
 Abstract:  In a series of essays originally rolled up as scrolls (Series II), Hare asserted that slavery was a positive good for slave, master, and community alike, but argued nevertheless that it be abolished gradually, with full compensation to slave owners, in favor of a free labor system marked by a pronounced racial subordination. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.H22 
 Extent:  3 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin (1792-1864) | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century 
3Author:  Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790Requires cookie*
 Title:  Benjamin Franklin Papers, 1642-1841     
 Dates:  1642-1841 
 Abstract:  The Franklin papers contain several letters which refer to African Americans, particularly in regards to the need to abolish slavery and the establishment of a school for African American children. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.F85 
 Extent:  85.5 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Account books. | American Philosophical Society | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Diaries. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 | Family Correspondence | France -- Foreign relations -- United States | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Deborah Read Rogers, 1708-1774 | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States | Hays, I. Minis (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | Hodge, Sarah Bache, 1798-1849 | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794 | Military History | Pen works | Pencil works | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 18th century | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | Postal service -- United States | Printed Material | Printers -- Pennsylvania | Printing and Publishing | Scientific Correspondence | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | United States -- Foreign relations -- France | United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- Politics and government -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Williams, Jonathan, 1719-1796 | Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815