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The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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Overview and metadata sections
The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of Free People of Color was an association organized in 1839 by individual Hicksite Quakers to support abolition of slavery and the education of Black people in New York City. The first meeting was held 6/1/1839, in the Rose Street Meeting House and other meetings were held in Friends' homes. Thirty-six members are listed in 1840, including Isaac T. Hopper, James Gibbons and Charles Marriott.
The Association corresponded with a similar group in Green Plain, Clark County, Ohio, and with the Association of Friends held in Philadelphia for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. The Antislavery Standard published accounts of its work.
This small collection contains a minute book (6/1839-5/1843) and loose minutes (1844).
Gift of Milton Hopkins, 1951
Milton Hopkins was the great grandson of Isaac Tatem Hopper
Previously cited as The New York Association for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color.
Organization
Subject
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
- African Americans -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York
- African Americans -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York
- Education -- New York (State) -- New York
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York
- Quakers -- Societies, etc
- Quakers -- Social service
- Society of Friends -- Charities
- Slavery -- United States
- Antislavery movements
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends
- Antislavery Movements -- New York (State) -- New York
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- New York
- Social service -- New York (State) -- New York
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2001
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Collection Inventory
1 volume
loose