Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Person
Dates
- Existence: 18071217 - 18920907
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
James Williams narrative
Collection
Identifier: c-00584
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a partial issue of the Anti-Slavery Examiner featuring the narrative of an escaped enslaved person, James Williams (born 1805). In his narrative, Williams details the daily life of enslaved people in Virginia and Alabama in the first half of the nineteenth century. He extensively discusses methods of torture used to punish them and recounts his experiences as a field driver on an Alabaman cotton plantation. Williams eventually...
Dates:
circa 1838
Joseph R. Williams papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.1
Scope and Contents
The first seventeen folders of this collection contain letters of correspondence with Joseph R. Williams prior to his acceptance of the presidency of the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Many of these letters are from his father and other family members. Additionally, there are letters to Williams, operating as a land speculator in Ohio and Michigan, from friends and business associates in Massachusetts and New York. The letters reflect a precarious economic...
Dates:
1827 - 1867