Subject | • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
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| | • | Family Correspondence |
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| | • | General Correspondence |
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| | • | Marriage and Family Life |
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| | • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
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| | • | Social Life and Custom |
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| | • | American Revolution |
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| | • | Americans Abroad |
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| | • | Business Records and Accounts |
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| | • | International Travel |
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| | • | Pennsylvania History |
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| | • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
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| | • | Account books. |
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| | • | Africa |
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| | • | Africa -- Description and travel |
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| | • | African American |
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| | • | American Philosophical Society |
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| | • | Antebellum Politics |
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| | • | Arctic Indians |
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| | • | Arctic regions-Pictorial works |
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| | • | Asia Minor -- Description and travel |
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| | • | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 |
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| | • | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 |
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| | • | Bills. |
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| | • | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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| | • | Business and Skilled Trades |
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| | • | China -- Foreign relations -- United States |
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| | • | Colonization, repatriation |
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| | • | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 |
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| | • | Diaries. |
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| | • | Diplomatic History |
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| | • | Diplomatic Material |
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| | • | Early National Politics |
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| | • | Egypt -- Description and travel |
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| | • | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 |
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| | • | Engravings. |
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| | • | Exploration |
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| | • | Exploration. |
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| | • | Explorers -- United States |
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| | • | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 |
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| | • | France -- Foreign relations -- United States |
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| | • | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 |
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| | • | Franklin, Deborah Read Rogers, 1708-1774 |
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| | • | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 |
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| | • | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 |
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| | • | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 |
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| | • | Genealogy. |
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| | • | Geometry -- Study and teaching |
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| | • | Government Affairs |
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| | • | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States |
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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: | 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 | |
| 3 | 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 | |
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