Meserole writes to Markham sending a pamphlet and an article about Judge Brenner sending a man to a penitentiary for food and shelter.
See article from Brooklyn Daily Eagle:...
A teenaged mother tends to her toddler at the Roberto Clemente State Park. She is surrounded by cots and a cribs used at this shelter for homeless families.
View of the Society's new shelter on the east side of the Grand Concourse & McClellan St.
(The building is today used for a girls club and other purposes.)
Manuscript copy of a four-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Hon. D. [David] Wilmot, in which he responds to a letter from Wilmot discussing slavery and the United States Constitution, and sends him a copy of Lysander...
Jerry Rescue Convention; Antislavery movements--United States
Three-page printed "address" by Gerrit Smith presented at the Jerry Rescue Convention in Syracuse [New York]. On back, addressed to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, in Smith's hand.
Envelope and eight-page manuscript copy of a letter from Gerrit Smith Peterboro [New York] to John Cochrane dated July 20, 1860, discussing Smith's libel suit against Royal Phelps and others.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
