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1Author:  Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Address on the impolicy of slavery, 1824     
 Dates:  1824 
 Abstract:  An example of an address given during the antebellum abolition movement. 
 Call #:  Mss.371.974.As7 
 Extent:  1 item(s) 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | Antebellum Politics | Association for the Education of Men of Colour. | Manuscript Essays | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Speeches. | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. 
2Author:  Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840Requires cookie*
 Title:  C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque Papers, 1808-1840     
 Dates:  1808-1840 
 Abstract:  The collection contains a manuscript written for a contest sponsored by the Societe de Geographie de Paris. The organization sought the best-written history of the "origins of negroes." Rafinesque was awarded a gold medal for his work. Rafinesque, Constantine S. Memoires sur l'origine des nations negres, ou introduction a l'histoire des negres indigenes d'Asie, d'Afrique, polynesie, Amerique et Europe. 1831. 1 item (106 pages). 
 Call #:  Mss.B.R124 
 Extent:  1.75 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Anishinaabe | Bibliographies. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Botany. | Culture, community, organizations | Delaware Indians | Essays. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Gass, Patrick, 1771-1870 | Indians of North America -- Louisiana | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Manuscript Essays | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural history | North America -- Description and travel. | Notebooks | Ojibwa Indians | Osage Indians | Ottawa Indians | Picture-writing | Plains Indians | Political Correspondence | Race, race relations, racism | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Tarascon, L. A. | Travel | Wallam olum | Zoology. 
3Author:  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 
4Author:  Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865Requires cookie*
 Title:  William Parker Foulke Papers, 1840-1865     
 Dates:  1840-1865 
 Abstract:  Among his many interests, Foulke was concerned with the colonization of West Africa for settlement of ex-slaves. As an agent for the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, Foulke kept a valuable diary of his activities in 1852. Colonization also appears as a theme in his correspondence with Edward Everett (1794-1865), Elliott Cresson (1796-1854), John H. B. Latrobe (1803-1891), William Francis Lynch (1801-1865), and William McLain (1855-1857), among others. Many of the above letters have been digitized, and a gallery to promote the study of the colonization cause in the Foulke Papers can be found here: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/gallery-colonization-foulke 
 Call #:  Mss.B.F826 
 Extent:  3.75 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West -- Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Bache, A.D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bringhurst | Cadwalader, John | Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Cassin, John, 1813-1869 | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilwor | Grinnell, Henry | Hart, George H. | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Landis, Henry D. | Law | LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Legal Records | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Liberia -- Description and travel | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Miscellaneous | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Native America | New York Prison Association | Olden, Charles Smith | Packard, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus) (1794-1867) | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Political Correspondence | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania | Prisons -- Design and construction | Prisons -- New York (State) | Prisons -- Pennsylvania | Reformers -- Pennsylvania | Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1806-1866 | Science and technology | Sheafer, P. W. (Peter Wenrick), 1819-1891 | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Wilson, John Wall 
5Author:  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