Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.7910/DVN/XCC3VN |
Publication Date
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2024-09-05 |
Title
| Quaker Manumissions in the American Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, 1759-1805 |
Author
| Bumbarger, BruceHaverford College
Caust-Ellenbogen, CeliaSwarthmore College
Cook, DavidHaverford College
Crauderueff, MaryHaverford College
Grinnage-Cassidy, Whitney
Martinez, Zahara
Pollard, James
Satten-Lopez, David
Trutt, JamesSwarthmore College
Thaisrivongs, EmilyHaverford College |
Point of Contact
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Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (Michigan State University)
Friends Historical Library |
Description
| This document collection, sourced from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections, contains manumissions from Quaker meetings (congregations) in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States during the 18th and early 19th centuries. When the Religious Society of Friends forbade slaveholding amongst its members, some Quaker meetings kept copies of these legal documents, granting enslaved people their freedom, as evidence that members complied with this requirement. The manumissions included in this project are from Quaker meetings that have deposited their records with the Friends Historical Library or the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. The Haverford College Libraries project "Manumitted: The People Enslaved by Quakers" established a structure and set of fields for the datasets published here. |
Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
Keyword
| Slavery |
Related Publication
| This data has been described in the following data article: Martinez, Zahara, and Celia Caust-Ellenbogen. "Quaker Manumissions in the American Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, 1759-1805." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 5, no. 3 (2024). https://doi.org/10.25971/hc3y-2e96 |
Language
| English |
Depositor
| Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation |
Deposit Date
| 2024-08-30 |
Time Period
| Start Date: 1759; End Date: 1805 |
Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2020; End Date: 2022 |
Data Source
| Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College: Quaker meeting records Bradford Monthly Meeting Records (including Bradford & Uwchlan (Hicksite) and other predecessors), Marriage certificates, 1737-1864, RG2/Ph/B71 3.1 Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records, Manumissions 1776-1793, RG2/Ph/B860 7.1 Camden Monthly Meeting Records (including Duck Creek and Motherkiln), Manumissions, 1774-1792, RG2/Ph/C34 6.5. Concord Monthly Meeting Records, Manumissions, 1776-1801, RG2/Ph/C61 8.3 Chester Monthly Meeting Records, Manumissions, 1776-1780, RG2/Ph/C433 6.1 Chesterfield Monthly Meeting Records, Manumissions, 1778-1803, RG2/Ph/C47 8.10 Kennett Monthly Meeting Records, Births and deaths, 1694-1821, RG2/Ph/K42 3.5 Middletown Monthly Meeting (Langhorne, Pa.) Records, Miscellaneous papers, 1684-1889, RG2/Ph/M5 7.1-7.4 Nine Partners Monthly Meeting Records, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Disownments, Manumissions, 1769-1798, RG2/NY/N553 4.1 Quakertown and Kingwood Monthly Meetings (1744-1905) Records, A book for registering the names, 1703-1866, RG2/Ph/Q3 3.1 Salem Monthly Meeting Records, Miscellaneous papers, 1681-1808 and n.d., RG2/Ph/S25++ 7.2. Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting (1672-1927) Records, Scrapbook of Manumissions, Sufferings, etc., 1773-1802, RG2/NY/S553 4.1 Uwchlan Monthly Meeting Records (Downingtown Friends Meeting), A Record of manumissions for slaves released from bondage within the limits of the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Uwchlan in Chester County Pennsylvania, 1775-1784, RG2/Ph/U9 3.2 Westbury Monthly Meeting Records, Manumissions, 1775-1798, RG2/NY/W453 3.9 Westbury Monthly Meeting Records, Manumissions, 1796-1798, RG2/NY/W453 3.12 Westbury Monthly Meeting Records, Manumissions, 1776-1790, RG2/NY/W453 3.16; Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, other collections: Collection of Manumissions, 1776-1832, SFHL-SC-079 Two manumissions of enslaved people, 1787, 1798, SFHL-RG5-085. Box: 7 Lamb-Booth-Miller Family Papers Manumission by Levi Cully, 1799-04-14, SFHL-RG5-079. Box: 5 Kent-Barnard Family Papers Acct. of John Randolph's last illness, manumission of the people he enslaved (typed), and pamphlet "From the deposition of Dr. Joseph Parrish in John Randolph's Case", Box: 1, 1833, SFHL-RG5-153. Underwood Family Papers Manumission certificate, Philener Hunt, 1799, Box: 1, SFHL-RG5-204. Anna C. Stabler Family Papers Manumission of James Thompson, 1759, SFHL/MSS/066. Smedley Family Scrapbook Manumission of Ben, 1778, SFHL-MSS-044. Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection Documents concerning the manumission of the children of Sue, a Woman Enslaved by the Fisher Family, 1777, SFHL-RG5-162. Joseph Wharton Family Papers; Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections: The original papers of manumission from the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia, Recorded by Abington, Exeter, Gwynedd, Haverford, Philadelphia, Northern District, and Southern District Monthly Meetings. (HC.PhM.P455.04.047) Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street Friends) Records Blackwater Minutes, 1779-1795, HC.BM.B541.02.003 (1116/196), Blackwater and Upper Monthly Meetings Records Manumissions, 1776-1787, HC.PhM.E800.01.004 (1250/M3.3.1), Box: E-2. Evesham Monthly Meeting Records |
Origin of Historical Sources
| Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections |