| | 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 | |
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