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Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Abolitionist Movement Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01101
Scope and Contents Letters, a speech, and a photograph relating to the abolitionist movement in the United States. Correspondents include: Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) of Lane Seminary, Elizur Wright (1804-1885), Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), philanthropist and reformer, Henry Grew (1782-1862), Quaker abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), prominent abolitionist, and Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898), abolitionist author. Subjects include abolition tactics...
Dates: 1834-1888

Gerrit Smith Letter to Asher Tyler

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00574
Scope and Contents

Letter from Gerrit Smith In Petersboro, New York  to Asher Tyler.  Concerns sending money to a mutual friend and the infirmities of Smith's old age. March 13, 1872.

Dates: 1872 March 13

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Abolitionists 1
Anti-slavery movements 1
Photographs 1
Quaker abolitionists 1
Slavery--Southern States--History 1