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Collection Title:
Creator:
Newman, F. W. (Francis William), 1805-1897.
Inclusive Dates:
1864-1905
Abstract:
Papers of the British scholar, man of letters. Seventy-six letters written between 1864 and 1897 to Moncure Daniel Conway on a variety of topics including politics, religion, and social reform.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Scholars.
Activism and social reform
Literature -- British
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Capital punishment.
Free schools.
Free will and determinism.
Irish question.
Marriage law.
Prostitution.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Scholars -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery -- United States.
Social reformers.
Temperance.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Powell, Harriet, fl. 1839.
Inclusive Dates:
1877-1941
Abstract:
Material relating to Tom Leonard and the 1839 escape of Harriet Powell, "white lady fugitive." Clippings from the Sunday Morning Times (Syracuse, New York), June 10, 1877, and a narrative explanation dated October 1941.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Memoirs.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Slavery -- United States.