Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against SlaveryAtheneum, 1971 - 376 Seiten Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), founder of the JOURNAL OF COMMERCE and the nation's first credit rating firm, is probably best known for his business accomplishments. But his greatest achievement was freedom. In the 1830s, he and his brother Arthur underwrote the Manhattan headquarters of the American Anti-Slavery Society and founded many other organizations to promote freedom, faith, and racial tolerance. |
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The Legacy of Sarah Tappan | 1 |
Boston | 17 |
Silks Feathers and Piety | 41 |
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Abel and Klingberg abolition abolitionism abolitionists Africans American Anti-Slavery Society American Missionary Amistad anti April Arthur Tappan Association August Baldwin Barnes and Dumond Beecher Benjamin Bible Birney Boston British BT MSS Charles Christian church Committee convention December diary Dunbar effort Elizur Wright Emancipator England evangelical February Fisk friends Garrison and Garrison Garrisonians Gerrit Smith Miller Henry Historical Society History ibid James January Jocelyn John Journal July June later leaders Leavitt Lewis Tappan Liberator Liberty party LT to BT LT to Sturge ltrbk March merchant mission moral movement Negro November Oberlin College Oberlin College Library October Phelps MSS Philadelphia political Presbyterian quotation reform religious Sarah Tappan Scoble September September 12 Shipherd slave slaveholders slavery Smith Miller MSS social South southern Susan Syracuse University Syracuse University Library Texas Theodore Weld tion Union Unitarian Weld Letters William Jay William Lloyd Garrison WLG MSS Wright MSS Yankee York Evangelist