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Antislavery movements.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Chester Loomis papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2238
Abstract Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and...
Dates: 1813-1865.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Chester Loomis papers

Edmund Morris papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 839
Dates: 1830-1919.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edmund Morris papers

Emily Howland miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065191201]
Identifier: 3710
Dates: 1923-1976,-1923-1954 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Emily Howland miscellany

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Emily Howland papers

First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6006
Abstract

Articles of faith, church covenant and minutes of regular and special church meetings, dealing with church finances, abolition, temperance, and religious discipline. Also three unrelated items: a sermon entitled "The hard-shell Baptists" (n.d.) satirizing that type of group; "The Baptist church manual" (1853); and "The Sunday School receiving book" (1838-1850) which lists pupils, dates of entry, parents' names, occupations and characters, residences, classes and remarks.

Dates: 1827-1883.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / First Baptist Church of Seneca Falls records

First Baptist Church of Williamson records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1 (positive): [Barcode: 31924094425265]
Identifier: 6035
Abstract

Three volumes of records (1826-1878) include minutes of church covenant meetings, membership lists, church covenants and articles of faith. Minutes include discussions of church policy regarding Masonry and slavery, a vote to hold protracted meetings, a decision that male members should have closed prayer meetings, and documentation of the trial of the church pastor.

Dates: 1821-1878.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / First Baptist Church of Williamson records

First United Methodist Church of Geneva records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6020
Abstract

Mainly class leader records (1835-1869) including a decisions on when to hold a Love Feast and a discussion about an anti-slavery convention to be held in Rochester. Also records of the Quarterly Conference Meetings (April 1837-October 1899). Also included is a membership register (1836-1854).

Dates: 1835-1899.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / First United Methodist Church of Geneva records

Gould family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2033
Abstract Diaries, 1799-1832, of Stephen Wanton Gould, concerned with meetings of the Society of Friends, the activities of his family members and friends as well as several public events; extracts from the records of monthly meetings, 1676-1707, held by Rhode Island Quakers; letters, 1862-1868, from John Stanton Gould to his daughter Mary (Gould) Baldwin, relating to the Goulds and the related families, Gould's early life, his interests, and other personal matters; journal, 1866-1869, showing Gould's...
Dates: 1799-[ca. 1869]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gould family papers

Judge Ferris Shoemaker papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065177705]
Identifier: 809
Dates: 1861-1866.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Judge Ferris Shoemaker papers

Kaercher and Packer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 347
Abstract

Correspondence and other papers relating the life of George Kaercher, who was a divinity student at Burr Seminary in Manchester, Vermont and Western Reserve College in Ohio, and later a minister in Ohio. Also includes papers of the Packer family.

Dates: 1789-1938.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Kaercher and Packer family papers

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