Inventory of the Manumission Society of North Carolina Records, 1773-1845
Collection Number 2055
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
- Processed by
- Suzanne Ruffing
- Date Processed
- August 1996
- Encoded by
- Lynn Holdzkom
- Date Encoded
- June 2003
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Southern Historical Collection
- Creator
- Manumission Society of North Carolina.
- Title
- Manumission Society of North Carolina Records, 1773-1845
- Call Number
- 2055
- Extent
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- 130 items (0.5 linear feet)
- Abstract
- Papers, 1773-1845, chiefly of Richard Mendenhall of Guilford County, N.C., relating to the Manumission Society of North Carolina and other groups. Papers concern the emanicipation of slaves and emigration of free blacks to Haiti, sponsored by a branch of North Carolina Quakers, and include correspondence about arranging the voyage, legal papers liberating slaves, passenger lists, and agreements and accounts concerning the ship and voyage. Other papers include scattered minutes and other records, 1773-1845, of Quaker groups in North Carolina.
Administrative Information
- Processing Information
- This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Manumission Society of North Carolina Records #2055, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Abolitionists--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- African Americans--Colonization--Haiti.
- Guilford County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
- Manumission Society of North Carolina.
- Mendenhall, Richard, fl. 1826.
- Quakers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements--North Carolina.
- Slaves--Emancipation--North Carolina.
Biographical/Historical Note
Richard Mendenhall of Guilford County, N.C., was active in various anti-slavery groups in the early 19th century.
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Papers, 1773-1845, chiefly of Richard Mendenhall of Guilford County, N.C., relating to the Manumission Society of North Carolina and other groups. Papers concern the emanicipation of slaves and emigration of free blacks to Haiti, sponsored by a branch of North Carolina Quakers, and include correspondence about arranging the voyage, legal papers liberating slaves, passenger lists, and agreements and accounts concerning the ship and voyage. Other papers include scattered minutes and other records, 1773-1845, of Quaker groups in North Carolina.
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1. Papers
2. Volumes
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Detailed Description of the Collection
1. Papers, 1803-1845.
About 120 items.
Papers of Richard Mendenhall of Jamestown, N.C., concerning the manumission of slaves and plans for their emigration. The few papers, 1803-1825, pertain to slavery and the activities of the Friends in ameliorating the condition of slaves.
The bulk of the papers, 1826, discuss the plans of the Meeting for the Sufferings, a branch of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, to send a ship, the Sally Ann, to Haiti with 121 freed slaves voluntarily emigrating. There are a number of letters to Mendenhall from members of the Colonization Society and other meetings in the North; from North Carolina citizens making arrangements for the emigration of freed slaves under their care; legal papers liberating slaves with lists of names of those willing to emigrate to Haiti; legal and financial aspects of transferring freed slaves; and the constitution of the Greensboro Auxiliary Society "for colonizing the free people of colour." Also included are agreements, accounts, lists, and other papers giving information about the Sally Ann's voyage to Haiti, such as papers documenting arrangements made by Mendenhall and Phineas Albertson with the owners of the schooner, Thomas Thompson and Henry M. Cooke. There are also papers of Phineas Nixon, agent for the Committee of Sufferings, who went with the ship to Haiti, and George Swain's report on the embarkation to the Society of Friends.
Papers from 1827 relate to the financial settlement following the Haiti voyage due to a disagreement between the Friends and the shipowners over fees. Papers, 1828-1845, include speeches, queries, accounts, a few letters, and extracts from minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings. Also included are litigation papers, 1842-1845, over the possession of Pitts slaves and notes on English history.
Folder
1
1803-1825
Folder
2-5
1826
Folder
6
1827
Folder
7
1828-1845 and undated
Folder
8
Notes, 1822
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2. Volumes, 1773-1826.
8 items.
Folder
9
Volume 1: Constitution, minutes, and discussions from the Scientific Society for the suppression of vice and immorality and the promotion of useful knowledge and literature, 1794-1798. 20 pp.
Folder
10
Volume 2: Letterbook from the Manumission Society of North Carolina with minutes, reports, and resolutions, 1817-1821. 76 pp.
Folder
11
Volume 3: Minute book from the Jamestown Meeting, a branch of the Manumission Society of North Carolina, 1825-1827. 30 pp.
Folder
12
Volume 4: Small account book with expenses of Phineas Nixon while on the voyage of the Sally Ann from Beaufort to Haiti, 1826. 14 pp.
Folder
13
Volume 5: Friends' rule book with queries and answers, ca. 1773. 25 pp.
Folder
14
Volume 6: Colonization and Abolition Contrasted, a pamphlet published by Herman Hooker, Philadelphia, Penn., undated. 15 pp.
Folder
15-16
Volume 7: Two copies of typescript copy of the minutes of the North Carolina Manumission Society (second copy is incomplete), 1816-1834. 271 pp.
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Related Collection
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Manumission Papers (#1294-z).