Skip to main content

Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Variants: Abolitionism ; Anti-slavery movements ; Slavery--Anti-slavery movements ; Slavery--Anti-slavery movements

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Action of the Amherst Faculty, 1834 November 26

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: Early Hist MSS 1], Folder: 48
Scope and Contents

A communication addressed to the committee named above, expressing the belief that the best interests of both the College and the petitioners would be promoted by the "voluntary disbanding" of the society. The faculty, however, agreed to permit the society to remain in existence, subject to four very strict "regulations," which are given in full.

Dates: 1834 November 26

Anti-slavery letters and documents for Cambridgeport congregation , 1837-1839

 File — Box 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a small body of correspondence and biographical material with general information on Stearns. There is also a group of photographs, mostly of Stearns and his family, but also of Charles Thompson (lived circa 1823-1906), a longtime friend and employee of the family and the College. The bulk of the collection consists of Stearns's sermons in manuscript form.The correspondence is mostly personal letters to and from members of Stearns's family, but there are...
Dates: 1837-1839

Anti-Slavery Society - minutes, 1833-1835

 File — Box 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of official records and associated material of approximately ninety clubs and organizations (excluding fraternities) affiliated with Amherst College from its founding in 1821 to the present time. Included are founding records, minutes, financial records, membership lists, clippings, publications, correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials.

Dates: 1833-1835

Anti-Slavery Society - minutes, 1837-1841

 File — Box 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of official records and associated material of approximately ninety clubs and organizations (excluding fraternities) affiliated with Amherst College from its founding in 1821 to the present time. Included are founding records, minutes, financial records, membership lists, clippings, publications, correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials.

Dates: 1837-1841

Anti-Slavery Society - minutes, clippings, 1833, 1835

 File — Box 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of official records and associated material of approximately ninety clubs and organizations (excluding fraternities) affiliated with Amherst College from its founding in 1821 to the present time. Included are founding records, minutes, financial records, membership lists, clippings, publications, correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials.

Dates: 1833; 1835

Bacon, George Ferdinand (AC non-grad 1837) - three letters, 1834

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.

Dates: 1834

Bowles-Hoar Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00294
Abstract

The Bowles-Hoar Family Papers document the personal and professional lives of multiple members of the Bowles and Hoar families circa 1779-1960. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, documents, miscellaneous materials, and publications, all of which provide a detailed portrait of the two families before and after their histories joined with the marriage of Samuel Bowles IV to Elizabeth Hoar in 1884.

Dates: circa 1779-1960; Majority of material found within 1835-1940

Brooks, Mary Merrick to Louisa Dunbar, 1838 May 18

 File — Box 38, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Letter from Mary Brooks to Louisa Dunbar "and the Ladies of the F.A. Society" [Female Anti-Slavery Society], written from Philadelphia after the burning of Pennsylvania Hall during an abolitionist meeting. Mary and Caroline Brooks attended the meeting; see also Caroline's letter from this event.

Dates: 1838 May 18

Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society of Amherst College, 1834 October 21

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: Early Hist MSS 1], Folder: 47
Scope and Contents Composed of John Farwell, Leander Thompson, Joseph Haven, Jr., William George Howard, Henry G. Pendleton, and Ezra Adams, Jr., to the faculty of Amherst College declining to comply with the request of the faculty that the Society be abolished, with reasons, etc. Beautifully written letter of about 1708 words. One of the signers, Joseph Haven, Jr., was professor or Mental and Moral Philosopher at Amherst from 1850 till 1858; of Systematic Theology in the Chicago Theological Seminary from...
Dates: 1834 October 21

[Hoar], Elizabeth H. Prichard, 1846 February 15-16

 File — Box 38, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents To Prichard in Baltimore, Maryland, where she worked as a teacher. Updates about Concord neighbors, her studies in Greek, German, etc., and comments about national news and leaders ("I have lost all my interest in the great Daniel" [Webster]), including: "I often see things which I should like to send you, but father always says so decidedly that I ought not to send you antislavery, that it overcomes my impulse. He thinks[,] I believe[,] that there is nothing those Southerners will not do...
Dates: 1846 February 15-16

President Humphrey to the Committee of the "Anti-Slavery Society in Amherst College", 1835 February 17

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: Early Hist MSS 1], Folder: 51
Scope and Contents

Very courteous letter, entirely in the president's handwriting, and signed by him, stating that "your society must cease to exist," with extended explanations.

Dates: 1835 February 17

Vaile, Rawson (AC 1839) - oration - "The Neglect of the Right of Suffrage", 1839

 Item — Box 8, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.

Dates: 1839

William Augustus Stearns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00120
Abstract

This collection contains a small body of correspondence, biographical material and other general material related to William A. Stearns and his family. The bulk of the collection consists of Stearns's sermons in manuscript form. The correspondence is mostly personal letters to and from members of Stearns's family, but there are some letters from Stearns to others, a group of anti-slavery letters and documents, and some religious documents pertaining to Stearns's ministry.

Dates: 1801-1875