Notes on Charles Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1847

Title:

Notes on Charles Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1847

Date:

1847

Description:

Notes on Charles Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1847, is a bound journal kept by a member of the Allston family in which they summarize the lecture given by Charles Sumner at the Boston Mercantile Library Association. The lecture discusses the Missouri Compromise, the "peculiar institution of the south," the history of slavery by the nations of antiquity, the importation of enslaved people into the English world, a timeline of slavery in the United States and Sumner's opinions of slavery as being cruel and sinful.

Collection Title:

Allston Family Papers, 1730-1901

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Mass.)

Topical Subject:

Slavery, Slave records, Slave trade, Speeches, addresses, etc, Note-taking, Anti-slavery movements, Lectures and lecturing, and Missouri compromise

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Georgetown County (S.C.)

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

12-04_F15 (1164.00)

Date Digital:

2022-10

Digitization Specifications:

600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.

Format:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Public Domain.

Access Information:

For more information and re-use requirements contact the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, 29401.

Admin ID:

266162