Manuscripts
Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, (bulk 1745-1850)
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- Description
- Papers and correspondence of several generation of the Pleasants family, focusing on Robert Pleasants.
- Production date
- 1745-1898.
- Call number
- mssBR Boxes 12-15
- Additional description
- Also included are papers of William Henry Pleasants (d. ca. 1826), and correspondence of John Hampden Pleasants (1797-1846), a noted Whig journalist
- Included are papers and correspondence reflecting Robert Pleasants' interest in abolitionism: manumissions, correspondence with Philadelphia Quaker abolitionists, and projects dealing with emancipation and education of slaves. Also included a petition of Philadelphia citizens to the Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania (1773) for the abolishing of slave trade
