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1	Author:	Vaux, George, V, 1721-1803	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Vaux Family Papers, 1690-1996
	Dates:	1690-1996
	Abstract:	The collection may contain materials of interest relating to the family's involvement with the anti-slavery movement.
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.73
	Extent:	150 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| African American \| American Revolution \| Antebellum Politics \| Business Records and Accounts \| Early National Politics \| Family Correspondence \| Genealogy. \| General Correspondence \| Institutional Records \| Land speculation \| Legal Records \| Maps and Surveys \| Marriage and Family Life \| Mineralogy. \| Native America \| Pennsylvania History \| Philadelphia History \| Quaker businesspeople \| Quakers -- Missions. \| Seneca Indians \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Social Life and Custom \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Surveying and Maps \| Travel \| Vaux Family \| Vaux, George, V, 1721-1803 \| Vaux, George, VII, 1779-1836 \| Vaux, George, VIII, 1832-1915 \| Vaux, William Sansom, 1811-1882 \| Yellow fever.

2	Author:	Wyck Association	Requires 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.)

3	Author:	Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790	Requires 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

4	Author:	Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Elisha Kent Kane Papers
	Dates:	1810-1953
	Abstract:	Among the most popular of American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, Kane visited Africa in 1846 aboard the frigate United States. The Kane collection contains a variety of fascinating materials relating to the slave trade and plight of African Americans in the nineteenth century. The papers consist of manuscript materials entitled "Journal of a Trip to Africa," "Slave voyage notebook," and "Whydah slave trade." Also, there are two "Africa: miscellaneous" folders which include an essay on the commercial policy and history of the Gold Coast, along with quantitative data for the years 1820-1843 regarding the repatriation of African Americans to Liberia.
	Call #:	Mss.B.K132
	Extent:	6.75 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| Africa \| Africa -- Description and travel \| Americans Abroad \| Arctic Indians \| Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration \| Arctic regions-Pictorial works \| Asia Minor -- Description and travel \| Bills. \| Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| China -- Foreign relations -- United States \| Colonization, repatriation \| Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 \| Egypt -- Description and travel \| Engravings. \| Exploration \| Exploration. \| Explorers -- United States \| Family Correspondence \| Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 \| Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 \| General Correspondence \| Geometry -- Study and teaching \| Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 \| Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 \| Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 \| Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 \| Hospitals -- Pennsylvania \| Indians of North America -- Nunavut \| International Travel \| Inuit -- Canada \| Inuit -- Greenland \| Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island \| Journals (notebooks) \| Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 \| Kane, Jane Duval Leiper \| Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- \| Lectures \| Letterbooks \| Liberia -- Description and travel \| Logbooks \| Maps. \| Marriage and Family Life \| Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania \| Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania \| Meteorology -- Arctic Regions \| Mexico -- Description and travel \| Mineralogy -- Study and teaching \| North Carolina -- Description and travel \| Northwest Passage \| Notebooks \| Obstetrics \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Hospitals \| Philadelphia. General Hospital \| Plantations \| Receipts \| Silhouettes \| Sketches. \| Slave trade -- Africa \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Social Life and Custom \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| United States -- Foreign relations -- China \| United States. Navy \| Watercolors

5	Author:	Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903	Requires cookie*
	Title:	J.P. Lesley Papers
	Dates:	1826-1898
	Abstract:	The antislavery interests of J. Peter and Susan Lesley are reflected in letters from correspondents such as Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The collection also includes a letter of Frederick Douglass (September 6, 1856) in which Douglass offers to assist Susan Lesley in locating the son of a "colored" friend of hers.
	Call #:	Mss.B.L56
	Extent:	7.75 Linear Feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| Americans Abroad \| Avesta \| Biographies. \| Cartography. \| Charities -- United States. \| Clippings. \| Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 \| Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 \| Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 \| Diaries. \| Education -- United States \| Egypt -- Antiquities. \| Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic \| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 \| Family Correspondence \| Flint, Austin \| France -- Description and travel \| Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt \| Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 \| General Correspondence \| Geological Survey of Pennsylvania \| Geology -- Maps \| Geology -- Nova Scotia -- Surveys \| Geology -- Pennsylvania \| Germany -- Description and travel \| Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 \| Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 \| Hawaiian language \| Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 \| International Travel \| Javanese language \| Journals (notebooks) \| Lesley, Allen \| Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 \| Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 \| Lesley, Susan I. (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 \| Literature \| Literature, Arts, and Culture \| Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 \| M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874 \| Marriage and Family Life \| Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 \| McKinley, Alexander \| Nova Scotia -- Surveys \| Obelisks \| Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 \| Paleontology -- Pennsylvania \| Pennsylvania -- Surveys \| Philology \| Photographs \| Poems \| Scientific Data \| Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 \| Sketches. \| Slavery -- United States. \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 \| Switzerland -- Description and travel \| Thomson, J. Edgar (James Edgar), 1808-1874 \| Transcendentalism \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| Unitarianism \| United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 \| Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 \| Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875.