Category:Anti-slavery manuscripts in Boston Public Library

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Anti-slavery collection[edit]

In the late 1890’s, the family of William Lloyd Garrison, along with others closely involved in the anti-slavery movement, presented the Boston Public Library with a major gathering of correspondence, documents, and other original material relating to abolition. The major groups consist of the papers of William Lloyd Garrison, Maria Weston Chapman, Deborah Weston, Anne Warren Weston, Caroline Weston, Lucia Weston, Lydia Maria Child, Amos Augustus Phelps, John Bishop Estlin, and Samuel May, Jr. Other valuable resources are the account books of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator; records of the American, Massachusetts, and New England Anti-Slavery Societies; scrapbooks concerning Anthony Burns and John Brown; and the files of Ziba B. Oakes, a slave broker of Charleston, South Carolina.

The library also has extensive holdings of printed material relating to the anti-slavery movement. The libraries of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker are here, all rich in relevant pamphlets and broadsides.

For more information please contact: Rare Books & Manuscripts Department, McKim Building, 3rd Floor, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

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Example detail of a mass circular supporting an anti-slavery petition to the State Legislature, 12 February 1838. For a transcription see the circular on Wikisource.
Example detail of a mass circular supporting an anti-slavery petition to the State Legislature, 12 February 1838. For a transcription see the circular on Wikisource.

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