Call Number:

MC.806

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers collection (HC.MC.806), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1800-1911 (inclusive)

Creator:

Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Pillsbury, Parker, Pease, Elizabeth, Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody, and Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

Abstract:

A collection relating to the work of anti-slavery advocate and worker, Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, and the circle of others involved, including John Greenleaf Whittier, William Lloyd Garrison and Susan B. Anthony. There are a number of issues of the Herald of Freedom of which Rogers was the editor.

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1794-1846) was educated at Dartmouth College and studied and practiced law in New Hampshire. In approximately 1833, Rogers became interested in the antislavery movement. He gave up his law practice and became editor of the Herald of Freedom, an antislavery paper which had been started some three or four years prior. He was an editor of the National Antislavery Standard from June 1840-May 13, 1841 and author of "Southern slavery and northern religion: two addresses," delivered in Concord, New Hampshire, February 11, 1844, as reported in Concord, New Hampshire Herald of Freedom, February 16, 1844; the addresses were published in Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave: with related documents/written by himself; edited with an introduction by David W. Blight. Publisher Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's,c 2003.

He married Mary Porter Farrand Rogers (1796-1890); they had eight children: Frances Farrand Rogers (1823-1866), George Stanton Rogers (1824-1835), Caroline Prentice Rogers (1826-1891), Daniel Farrand Rogers (1828-1919), Ellen Mulliken Rogers (1830-1890), Mary Porter Rogers (1832-1930), Charles Stuart Rogers (1835-1893), and Lucia Anne Kent Rogers (1837-1901). Mary Porter Farrand Rogers was the daughter of Daniel Farrand (1760-1825) and Mary Porter (1773-1812).

Information from: Old portraits and modern sketches/by John G. Whittier and OPAC.

Letters of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1794-1846), American abolitionist, to his wife, Mary Porter Farrand Rogers, and members of his family; also, to friends interested in the anti-slavery movement. Writers of letters to Nathaniel P. Rogers include: Mary Clark, William Lloyd Garrison, Isaac Tatem Hopper, Elizabeth Pease, George Thompson, Richard Davis Webb, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others. There are two letters from Sen. Charles Sumner to Sen. McPhail, three letters from Parker Pillsbury to Mary Rogers, a letter from Susan B. Anthony to Mary Rogers and a copy of a Frederick Douglass letter (1892 2/18) to Marshall Pierce. The collection also includes deeds, receipts, and other legal documents, as well as drafts of editorials, letters to newspapers,articles by N.P. Rogers and a signed photograph of John G. Whittier. There is the original constitution of the Plymouth Anti-Slavery Society. In addition, there are letters about Nathaniel P. Rogers and a proposed memorial to be erected by his grandchildren in Concord, N.H. As well, there are over 100 issues of the Herald of Freedom.