Benjamin Lundy papers
Contributors: Vickers, Paxson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Correspondence; Freedmen; Description and travel; Antislavery movements; Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; African Americans; Slavery; Colonization
Description: Correspondence pertaining chiefly to the antislavery movement.  Includes descriptions of Hennepin and Lowell, Illinois, circa 1838-1839.  Correspondents include Charles C. Burleigh and members of the Lundy and Vickers families.  Other items include a petition to the governor of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico, requesting permission to settle African American families there in 1832; a circular (1837) concerning the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; poems; and an undated biographical sketch of Benjamin Lundy.  The collection includes papers of abolitionist Paxson Vickers.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, E. P. Oberholtzer, 1932.

Abolitionist, publisher, and author.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.