Women abolitionists
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Helen Thoreau anti-slavery scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: C-122
Scope and Contents
Collection contains two scrapbooks containing numerous newspaper clippings from the late 1830s to the 1850s, mounted into volumes originally used as account books from 1813-1817. Much of the subject matter relates to slavery in the United States and the antislavery movement. Clippings of published poems and prose include those by Whittier, Longfellow, Tennyson, and Lydia Maria Child. One volume has a hand-written index and is inscribed: "Begin March 1844. H.L. Thoreau, Concord, Mass." Some...
Dates:
1830s-1850s
