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	Author:	Edwards, Benjamin	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Benjamin Edwards Papers
	Dates:	1819-1827
	Abstract:	Two letters in this brief collection may be of interest to students of African American history. In letters dated 27 March 1823 and 1 March 1824, Benjamin Edwards discusses his experiences as a slave overseer at a sawmill in Louisiana.
	Call #:	Mss.B.Ed9
	Extent:	0.25 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	African American \| Edwards, Benjamin \| Edwards, Oliver \| Exploration \| Exploration. \| Family Correspondence \| General Correspondence \| Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864 \| Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820) \| Travel \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| West (U.S.)-Description and travel

	Author:	Hare, Robert, 1781-1858	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Robert Hare papers, 1764-1858
	Dates:	1764-1858
	Abstract:	In a series of essays originally rolled up as scrolls (Series II), Hare asserted that slavery was a positive good for slave, master, and community alike, but argued nevertheless that it be abolished gradually, with full compensation to slave owners, in favor of a free labor system marked by a pronounced racial subordination.
	Call #:	Mss.B.H22
	Extent:	3.0 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| African American \| American Philosophical Society \| Antebellum Politics \| Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania \| Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 \| Banks and banking -- United States. \| Blasting, Submarine \| Blowpipe. \| Business Records and Accounts \| Business and Skilled Trades \| Capital punishment. \| Chemical apparatus \| Chemistry \| Chemists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia \| Cyclones. \| Early National Politics \| Education \| Educational Material \| Electricity--19th century \| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 \| Epidemics--United States \| Essays. \| Federalist Party--Pennsylvania \| Fire extinction \| Fisher, John, 1806-1882 \| Fisher, Richard \| General Correspondence \| Guano \| Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 \| Kane , John K., (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 \| Lectures \| Literature \| Literature, Arts, and Culture \| Manuscript Essays \| Mesmerism \| Money \| Paper money--United States--19th century \| Partridge, Charles \| Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--19th century \| Poems \| Powel, Samuel, Jr. \| Race, race relations, racism \| Railroads \| Religion \| Rome (Italy)--Antiquities \| Science and technology \| Scientific Data \| Silliman, Benjamin, Sr., 1779-1864 \| Sketchbooks \| Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--United States--19th century \| Slavery -- Pennsylvania. \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Smithsonian Institution \| Spiritualism--Pennsylvania \| Storms \| Tornadoes \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| United States--Politics and government--19th Century

	Author:	Hare-Willing family.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Hare-Willing Family Papers
	Dates:	1724-1965
	Abstract:	Of particular interest to students of African American history are records of the First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia (receipt book, 1820-1848; minute book, 1827-1844).
	Call #:	Mss.Ms.Coll.104
	Extent:	52.0 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Account books. \| African American \| African American churches--United States \| Americans Abroad \| Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. \| Beale, Catherine C., 1857- \| Beale, Charles Willing, 1845-1932 \| Beale, Constance R., 1849- \| Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1853- \| Binney, Horace, 1780-1875 \| Business Records and Accounts \| Business and Skilled Trades \| Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 \| Clark, John Innes \| Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 \| Early National Politics \| Education \| Educational Material \| Family Correspondence \| First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia. \| Flint (Ship) \| General Correspondence \| Hare, Charles Willing, 1871-1942 \| Hare, Ellen Mary Cassatt \| Hare, Emily P. Beale, 1848-1935 \| Hare, Esther Binney, 1873-1967 \| Hare, Esther Coxe Binney \| Hare, George Harrison \| Hare, Horace Binney \| Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879 \| Hare, Horace Binney, 1876-1956 \| Hare, John Innes Clark, 1816-1905 \| Hare, Margaret Willing, 1753-1816 \| Hare, Robert, 1752-1811 \| Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 \| Hare, Robert, 1869-1875 \| Hare, Thomas Truxtun, 1878-1956 \| Hare-Willing family. \| Harvard University. \| Institutional Records \| International Travel \| Journals (notebooks). \| Law \| Legal Records \| Letterbooks. \| Mac Veagh, Margaret \| Meigs, Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare \| Minutes. \| Miscellaneous \| Natural History \| Notebooks \| Perry-Smith, Oliver, 1884-1969 \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. \| Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Councils. -- Common Council. \| Philadelphia History \| Receipt books. \| Religion \| Religion, religious organizations \| Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 \| San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel. \| Science -- United States -- 19th century. \| Science and Technology \| Scrapbooks. \| Smith, Stuart Farrar, 1874-1951 \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Steam-engines. \| Titantic (Steamship) \| Travel \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| United States (Ship) \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. \| Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821 \| Women's History \| World War I \| World War II

	Author:	Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Elisha Kent Kane Papers
	Dates:	Bulk, 1843-1857
	Abstract:	Among the most popular of American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, Kane visited Africa in 1846 aboard the frigate United States. The Kane collection contains a variety of fascinating materials relating to the slave trade and plight of African Americans in the nineteenth century. The papers consist of manuscript materials entitled " Journal of a Trip to Africa," " Slave voyage notebook," and " Whydah slave trade." Also, there are two " Africa: miscellaneous" folders which include an essay on the commercial policy and history of the Gold Coast, along with quantitative data for the years 1820-1843 regarding the repatriation of African Americans to Liberia.
	Call #:	Mss.B.K132
	Extent:	6.75 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| Africa \| Africa--Description and travel \| Americans Abroad \| Arctic Indians \| Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration \| Arctic regions-Pictorial works \| Asia Minor--Description and travel \| Bills. \| Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) \| China--Foreign relations--United States \| Colonization, repatriation \| Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 \| Egypt--Description and travel \| Engravings. \| Exploration \| Exploration. \| Explorers--United States \| Family Correspondence \| Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 \| Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 \| General Correspondence \| Geometry--Study and teaching \| Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 \| Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 \| Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 \| Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 \| Hospitals--Pennsylvania \| Indians of North America--Nunavut \| International Travel \| Inuit--Canada \| Inuit--Greenland \| Inuit--Nunavut--Baffin Island \| Journals (notebooks) \| Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 \| Kane, Jane Duval Leiper \| Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 \| Lectures \| Letterbooks \| Liberia--Description and travel \| Logbooks \| Maps. \| Marriage and Family Life \| Medicine--Practice--Pennsylvania \| Medicine--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania \| Meteorology--Arctic Regions \| Mexico--Description and travel \| Mineralogy--Study and teaching \| North Carolina--Description and travel \| Northwest Passage \| Notebooks \| Obstetrics \| Philadelphia (Pa.)--Hospitals \| Philadelphia. General Hospital \| Plantations \| Receipts \| Silhouettes \| Sketches. \| Slave trade--Africa \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Social Life and Custom \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| United States--Foreign relations--China \| United States. Navy \| Watercolors

	Author:	Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903	Requires cookie*
	Title:	J.P. Lesley Papers
	Dates:	1826-1898
	Abstract:	The antislavery interests of J. Peter and Susan Lesley are reflected in letters from correspondents such as Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The collection also includes a letter of Frederick Douglass (September 6, 1856) in which Douglass offers to assist Susan Lesley in locating the son of a "colored" friend of hers.
	Call #:	Mss.B.L56
	Extent:	7.75 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| Americans Abroad \| Avesta \| Biographies. \| Cartography. \| Charities -- United States. \| Clippings. \| Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 \| Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 \| Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 \| Diaries. \| Education--United States \| Egypt--Antiquities. \| Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic \| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 \| Family Correspondence \| Flint, Austin \| France--Description and travel \| Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt \| Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 \| General Correspondence \| Geological Survey of Pennsylvania \| Geology--Maps \| Geology--Nova Scotia--Surveys \| Geology--Pennsylvania \| Germany--Description and travel \| Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 \| Hale, Lucretia P., (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 \| Hawaiian language \| Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 \| International Travel \| Javanese language \| Journals (notebooks) \| Lesley, Allen \| Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 \| Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 \| Lesley, Susan I., (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 \| Literature \| Literature, Arts, and Culture \| Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 \| M'Kim, J. Miller, (James Miller), 1810-1874 \| Marriage and Family Life \| Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 \| McKinley, Alexander \| Nova Scotia--Surveys \| Obelisks \| Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 \| Paleontology--Pennsylvania \| Pennsylvania--Surveys \| Philology \| Photographs \| Poems \| Scientific Data \| Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 \| Sketches. \| Slavery -- United States. \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 \| Switzerland--Description and travel \| Thomson, J. Edgar, (James Edgar), 1808-1874 \| Transcendentalism \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| Unitarianism \| United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 \| Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 \| Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875.

	Author:	Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Samuel George Morton Papers
	Dates:	1819-1850
	Abstract:	Morton's diary, made on a trip that be made to the West Indies, records observations made on many of the Islands on life, work, agriculture, slavery, and derogatory comments on the native inhabitants.
	Call #:	Mss.B.M843
	Extent:	2.25 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. \| African American \| Archaeology \| Aymara Indians \| Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 \| Barbados--Description and travel--19th century \| Botany \| Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853 \| Conrad, T. A., (Timothy Abbott), 1803-1877 \| Cooper, William, 1776-1848 \| Craniology. \| Craniometry \| Dana, James D. (James Dwight), 1813-1895 \| Diaries. \| Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 \| Eastern Woodlands Indians \| Education \| Egyptology. \| Exploration. \| Fermine Gomez Farias \| French, B. F., (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877 \| General Correspondence \| Geology \| Gliddon, George R.(George Robins),1809-1857. \| Gomez, Jose Justo Gomez de la Cortina, conde de la, 1799-1860 \| Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 \| Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 \| Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 \| Indians of North America--Kentucky \| Indians of North America--Massachusetts \| Indians of North America--Mississippi \| Indians of North America--Ohio \| Indians of North America--Physical characteristics \| Indians of North America--Rhode Island \| Indians of North America--Tennessee \| Indians of South America--Peru \| Indians of South America--Physical characteristics \| International Travel \| Kane , John K., (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 \| Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875 \| Medicine \| Mineralogy \| Miscegenation \| Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 \| Natural history \| Naumkeag Indians \| Ornithology \| Paleontology \| Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 \| Pentland, Joseph Barclay \| Phrenology \| Race \| Race, race relations, racism \| Rush, William, 1756-1833 \| Science and technology \| Scientific Correspondence \| Sketches. \| Skull. \| Slavery--Barbados \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Southeast Indians \| Travel \| Travel Narratives and Journals \| United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) \| Watercolors \| Wied-Neuwied, Maximilien Alexandre Philippe, prinz von, 1782-1864

	Author:	Sellers family.	Requires cookie*
	Title:	Sellers family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive)
	Dates:	1675-1928
	Abstract:	There is at least one item in this collection which may be of interest to students of African American history: Carre, John Thomas. Letter to Charles Willson Peale. Circa 1792. Describes Carre's escape from the slave uprising in Saint Domingue.
	Call #:	Mss.B.P31.50
	Extent:	3.0 Linear feet
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	Subjects:	Abolition, emancipation, freedom \| American Revolution \| Artists -- United States. \| Education \| Family Correspondence \| General Correspondence \| Hill, Hannah Sellers \| Hill, Peter, d. 1857 \| Inventions. \| Inventors -- United States. \| Land and Speculation \| Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 \| Legal Records \| Literature \| Literature, Arts, and Culture \| Maps and Surveys \| Marriage and Family Life \| Official Government Documents and Records \| Patents. \| Peale family. \| Peale, Charles Linnaeus, 1794-1832 \| Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 \| Peale, Franklin,1795-1870. \| Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825 \| Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 \| Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865 \| Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola,1786-1859. \| Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 \| Pennsylvania -- Industries. \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. \| Philadelphia History \| Race, race relations, racism \| Sellers, Ann,b. 1785. \| Sellers, Anna,1824-1908. \| Sellers, Coleman,1781-1834. \| Sellers, Coleman,b. 1827. \| Sellers, Elizabeth Coleman, 1751-1832 \| Sellers, George Escol \| Slaves, slavery, slave trade \| Social Life and Custom \| Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform \| Surveying and Maps \| Technology -- United States. \| Travel \| Travel Narratives and Journals