Box 1

Collection Overview From the Collection: The collection consists of research material created and collected by the Peases for numerous projects, such as Bound With Them in Chains, 1972 and They Who Would be Free, 1974. The materials document slaves and free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, national abolition societies, disunion addresses and pamphlets and writings from figures prominent in the abolition movement, including a memoir and other materials...

Collection Overview From the Collection: The collection consists of research material created and collected by the Peases for numerous projects, such as Bound With Them in Chains, 1972 and They Who Would be Free, 1974. The materials document slaves and free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, national abolition societies, disunion addresses and pamphlets and writings from figures prominent in the abolition movement, including a memoir and other materials...

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Includes a list of those involved in Denmark Vesey conspiracy, burial records and marriage records including some African Americans at St. Stephens Chapel, and a broadside, Rules and Regulations of the Coloured Ministers, Elders and Members of the Baptist Church, in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Lists the names of Charleston's free blacks and their addresses.

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Includes a portion of Magistrate's court register with some references to slaves; court case of South Carolina versus Edward Smith, a sailor who distributed abolitionist material to Charleston blacks; Petition for Change of Trustee and Relief for William and Laura Decoster and copies of Charleston laws pertaining to slaves.

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By B.C. Pressley, regarding laws and regulations for Charleston, South Carolina.

Scope and Contents Includes Address of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; Declaration of Sentiments and the constitution of the American Antislavery Society; Address to the Abolitionists of Massachusetts from the Massachusetts Antislavery Society; pages from the Antislavery Advocate; To the People of the United States from the Antislavery...

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Includes copy of 1842 pamphlet published under his pseudonym Pacificus titled The Rights and Privileges of the Several States in Regard to Slavery, By a Whig of Ohio, regarding abolition and politics; and photocopy of pamphlet entitled, A Letter From Hon. J.R. Giddings, Upon the Duty of Anti-Slavery Men in the Present Crisis.

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Entitled, Letter to Nathaniel Barney and Peter May of Nantucket in which he discusses the views of American churches in respect to slavery and abolition and Revolution the Only Remedy for Slavery wherein he advocates immediate abolition.

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Entitled, A Brief Account of His Ministry Given in a Discourse.