National Anti-Slavery Standard. January 1843 - May 1843.
African Americans --New York (State) --New York --Newspapers
American Anti-Slavery Society
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements --United States --Newspapers
New York (N.Y.) --Newspapers
Philadelphia (Pa.) --Newspapers
Slavery--United States--Periodicals
The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Lydia and David Child, abolitionists and writers, established the newspaper in 1840. The Standard advocated for the rights of slaves throughout the country, as well as suffrage for women.
The Lewis collection includes the following issues:
Volume 3, No. 32, January 12, 1843
Volume 3, No. 34, January 26, 1843
Volume 3, No. 35, February 2, 1843
Volume 3, No. 36, February 9, 1843
Volume 3, No. 37, February 16, 1843
Volume 3, No. 38, February 23, 1843
Volume 3, No. 39, March 2, 1843
Volume 3, No. 40, March 9, 1843
Volume 3, No. 42, March 23, 1843
Volume 3, No. 48, May 4, 1843
American Anti-Slavery Society
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society
1843
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880, Editor.
Child, David Lee, 1794-1874, Assistant Editor.
English
Type
Dates of publication: 1840-1870
The Anti-Slavery Examiner. Vol. 1, no. 2. September, 1836
American Anti-Slavery Society
Antislavery movements
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Slavery--United States--Controversial literature
The Anti-Slavery Examiner was among several serials published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. It began publication in August 1836 and was published irregularly (at times as a pamphlet or tract) until 1845.
"Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" by A.E. Grimke. In this essay, Angelina Grimke urges Southern women to use their influence on the men in their lives to fight against slavery.
American Anti-Slavery Society
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society
1836-09
English
Text
ALMS.1836.
New York, New York
The Emancipator. Vol. 4,, no. 46, whole number 202. March 12, 1840
American Anti-Slavery Society
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Newspapers
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873, Editor
New York (N.Y.) -- Newspapers
Slavery--United States--Periodicals
The Emancipator was one of several publications by the American Anti-Slavery Society. First published in May 1833 in New York City, the title of the publication changed several times, as did its editors and publishers. When Joshua Leavitt became the editor in 1840, the Emancipator became a leading abolitionist newspaper. He focused on the political and moral issues related to the abolition of slavery.
In December 1841 the Free American, the official paper of the Massachusetts Abolition Society, merged with the Emancipator and the editors renamed it the Emancipator and Free American.
The Emancipator ran for 18 years and became one of the most widely circulated antislavery newspapers in the country.
American Anti-Slavery Society
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society
1840-03-12
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873, Editor
English
Text
New York, New York
Letter : Charles A. Greathouse, State Chairman, Democratic State Central Committee, to All District, County and Municipal Chairman. October 18, 1917
Democratic Party (Ind.) State Central Committee
Election officials
Greathouse, Charles A.
Indiana--General assembly
Indiana. Supreme Court
Women--Suffrage--Indiana
Letter sent by the state chairman to instruct all Democratic district, county and municipal chairman to select, nominate, and have appointed a Democratic woman for each election precinct clerk to receive, count, and canvass women's votes regardless of whether or not the Indiana Supreme Court help up the new law granting women the right to vote.
After the Indiana State Legislature passed a partial suffrage bill in February 1917, the State Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional in October 1917.
Democratic Party (Ind.) State Central Committee
1917-10-18
2 p.
English
DOCU.1917.22
The Liberator. Vol. 35, no. 52, whole number 1803. December 29, 1865
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Newspapers
Boston (Mass.) -- Newspapers
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843
Suffolk County (Mass.) -- Newspapers
The Liberator
The Liberator (1831-1865) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp. The newspaper called for the "Immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves." The Liberator also advocated for women's rights by printing editorials, petitions, convention calls, speeches, and other material to promote women's equality. The motto was "Our Country is the World, our Countrymen are all Mankind."
Over its 35 year run, Garrison published 1,820 issues, ending in 1865 after the end of the Civil War. This issue was the newspaper's final issue. It includes a poem by a woman identified as Carrie from Brooklyn, New York, entitled "A Farewell to the Liberator." There are also tributes to Garrison and to the paper.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843
Boston : William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp
1865-12-29
William Lloyd Garrison, Editor
J.B. Yerrinton & Son, Printers
Some issues available online: http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/
English
Text
Dates of publication: 1831-1865
Pamphlet : A new fashioned argument for woman suffrage. Address at the college evening of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Buffalo. October 17, 1908
Bryn Mawr College
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Employment--United States
Women social reformers
Martha Carey Thomas was the second president of Bryn Mawr College from 1894 until 1922. In this address, she argues for financial and social equality for women. Thomas discusses the increasing presence of women in the workplace and that without the vote, working women will continue to be subject to laws that were often discriminatory and capricious.
Thomas received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1877 and that same year, was the first woman to enter Johns Hopkins University at the graduate level. At Bryn Mawr, she was the Dean of the College and the first Professor of English. Thomas is best known for helping to facilitate the admission of women to the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1893. She raised thousands of dollars for the National American Woman Suffrage Association and, in 1908, became the first president of the National College Women's Equal Suffrage League.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935
New York : National College Equal Suffrage League
[1911]
21 p.
English
DOCU.1909.11
Memorial of Dr. Mary E. Walker, introduced in the Senate by Dr. Walker on January 16, 1873, and calling card. 1873
Citizenship
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of
citizenship, guaranteed in by the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment. Since women were citizens, they already had the right to vote. She never accepted the idea that women needed another constitutional amendment to vote, and referred to this as her "crowning constitutional argument."
Her speech to the Senate in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two. At the bottom of page two is a handwritten note: "Introduced in the Senate...Jan. 16th 1873"
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
1873-01-16
United States. Congress (42nd, 3rd session : 1872-1873)
ALMS.1873.02
"The Crowning Constitutional Argument"
Reprint: 1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
ALMS.1873.01
Washington, D.C.
Broadside : The Crowning Constitutional Argument. 1873
Citizenship
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of citizenship, guaranteed in by the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment. Since women were citizens, they already had the right to vote. She never accepted the idea that women needed another constitutional amendment to vote, and referred to this as her "crowning constitutional argument."
Her speech to Congress in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two.
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
1873-01-20
United States. Congress (42nd, 3rd session : 1872-1873)
ALMS.1873.01 "A Memorial to Mary E. Walker"
1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
ALMS.1873.02a
Washington, D.C.
Envelope : 100 Women's Official Ballots for or against an act to revise the law with relation to banks and banking. 1920
Ballot
Banking law
Banks and banking--Law and legislation
Election officials
Election workers
Envelope that would have held ballots related to a revision to a banking law. The envelope was intended to be opened only by an election official.
[1920]
English
DOCU.1920.04