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Howland family.

 Family

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Emily Howland papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2681
Abstract Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates: 1797-1938.

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Abolitionists. 1
African Americans -- Education. 1
Antislavery movements. 1
Freedmen. 1
Genealogies. 1