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The Burleigh Family of Plainfield, Connecticut: An Anti-Racist Abolitionist Legacy
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  • The Burleigh Project
    • Causes and Tangents
    • Burleigh Family Map
    • Secondary Sources and Archival Collections
    • Coming Burleigh Attractions
    • About this Project
  • Family Members
    • Seven Core Siblings
      • Mary Frances Burleigh: The Only Sister
      • John Oscar Burleigh: The Oldest, But Least Famed Brother
      • Charles Calistus Burleigh: An Unkempt but Powerful Force for Abolition
      • William Henry Burleigh: Earnest and Affable Editor
      • Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh: Preacher and Teacher
      • Cyrus Moses Burleigh: Quick-Witted Activist
      • George Shepard Burleigh: Poet of Reform, Nature, and Sentiment
    • Parents, Spouses, and Children
      • The Parents: Rinaldo & Lydia Bradford Burleigh
      • Gertrude Kimber Burleigh: Quaker Partner to Charles
      • Celia Burleigh: First Female Unitarian Minister and William's Second Wife
      • Margaret Jones Burleigh: Friend to Cyrus; Wife to Mary Grew
      • Ruth Burgess Burleigh: Abolitionist and Poetic Partner to George
      • Charles Calistus Burleigh, Jr.: Exquisite Painter
      • L. R. Burleigh Jr.: Lithographer of Bird's-Eye Views
      • Sydney Richmond Burleigh: Artist of Multiple Skills in Rhode Island
  • Chapters in Family History
    • The Canterbury Female Academy, Prudence Crandall, and the Black Women Students
    • Agency and Activity in the 1830s
    • Abolitionist Schism and the Burleigh Family
    • Success, Struggles, and Sorrows: The 1850s
    • Radical Retirements: 1860-1903
  • Themes and Concepts
    • Newspapers Edited by Burleighs
    • The Life of an Anti-Slavery Agent
    • African-American Allies and Associates of the Burleigh Siblings
    • Anti-Racism: Definitions and Examples
    • Women's Rights
    • Queer Subtexts
    • Understanding the Temperance Cause
    • Pacifism and Non-Resistance in Theory and Practice
    • Utopia and Religion
    • Transcendentalism
    • Aesthetics, the Arts, and Social Change
    • Pilgrims
    • Geography: Range and Mobility
    • Networks of Friends, Neighbors, Close Associates
    • Glimpses of Technological Change
The Burleigh Family of Plainfield Connecticut
The Burleigh Family of Plainfield, Connecticut: An Anti-Racist Abolitionist Legacy
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  • Home
  • The Burleigh Project
    • The Burleigh Project
      • Causes and Tangents
      • Burleigh Family Map
      • Secondary Sources and Archival Collections
      • Coming Burleigh Attractions
      • About this Project
    • Causes and Tangents
    • Burleigh Family Map
    • Secondary Sources and Archival Collections
    • Coming Burleigh Attractions
    • About this Project
  • Family Members
    • Family Members
      • Seven Core Siblings
        • Mary Frances Burleigh: The Only Sister
        • John Oscar Burleigh: The Oldest, But Least Famed Brother
        • Charles Calistus Burleigh: An Unkempt but Powerful Force for Abolition
        • William Henry Burleigh: Earnest and Affable Editor
        • Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh: Preacher and Teacher
        • Cyrus Moses Burleigh: Quick-Witted Activist
        • George Shepard Burleigh: Poet of Reform, Nature, and Sentiment
      • Parents, Spouses, and Children
        • The Parents: Rinaldo & Lydia Bradford Burleigh
        • Gertrude Kimber Burleigh: Quaker Partner to Charles
        • Celia Burleigh: First Female Unitarian Minister and William's Second Wife
        • Margaret Jones Burleigh: Friend to Cyrus; Wife to Mary Grew
        • Ruth Burgess Burleigh: Abolitionist and Poetic Partner to George
        • Charles Calistus Burleigh, Jr.: Exquisite Painter
        • L. R. Burleigh Jr.: Lithographer of Bird's-Eye Views
        • Sydney Richmond Burleigh: Artist of Multiple Skills in Rhode Island
    • Seven Core Siblings
      • Seven Core Siblings
        • Mary Frances Burleigh: The Only Sister
        • John Oscar Burleigh: The Oldest, But Least Famed Brother
        • Charles Calistus Burleigh: An Unkempt but Powerful Force for Abolition
        • William Henry Burleigh: Earnest and Affable Editor
        • Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh: Preacher and Teacher
        • Cyrus Moses Burleigh: Quick-Witted Activist
        • George Shepard Burleigh: Poet of Reform, Nature, and Sentiment
      • Mary Frances Burleigh: The Only Sister
      • John Oscar Burleigh: The Oldest, But Least Famed Brother
      • Charles Calistus Burleigh: An Unkempt but Powerful Force for Abolition
      • William Henry Burleigh: Earnest and Affable Editor
      • Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh: Preacher and Teacher
      • Cyrus Moses Burleigh: Quick-Witted Activist
      • George Shepard Burleigh: Poet of Reform, Nature, and Sentiment
    • Parents, Spouses, and Children
      • Parents, Spouses, and Children
        • The Parents: Rinaldo & Lydia Bradford Burleigh
        • Gertrude Kimber Burleigh: Quaker Partner to Charles
        • Celia Burleigh: First Female Unitarian Minister and William's Second Wife
        • Margaret Jones Burleigh: Friend to Cyrus; Wife to Mary Grew
        • Ruth Burgess Burleigh: Abolitionist and Poetic Partner to George
        • Charles Calistus Burleigh, Jr.: Exquisite Painter
        • L. R. Burleigh Jr.: Lithographer of Bird's-Eye Views
        • Sydney Richmond Burleigh: Artist of Multiple Skills in Rhode Island
      • The Parents: Rinaldo & Lydia Bradford Burleigh
      • Gertrude Kimber Burleigh: Quaker Partner to Charles
      • Celia Burleigh: First Female Unitarian Minister and William's Second Wife
      • Margaret Jones Burleigh: Friend to Cyrus; Wife to Mary Grew
      • Ruth Burgess Burleigh: Abolitionist and Poetic Partner to George
      • Charles Calistus Burleigh, Jr.: Exquisite Painter
      • L. R. Burleigh Jr.: Lithographer of Bird's-Eye Views
      • Sydney Richmond Burleigh: Artist of Multiple Skills in Rhode Island
  • Chapters in Family History
    • Chapters in Family History
      • The Canterbury Female Academy, Prudence Crandall, and the Black Women Students
      • Agency and Activity in the 1830s
      • Abolitionist Schism and the Burleigh Family
      • Success, Struggles, and Sorrows: The 1850s
      • Radical Retirements: 1860-1903
    • The Canterbury Female Academy, Prudence Crandall, and the Black Women Students
    • Agency and Activity in the 1830s
    • Abolitionist Schism and the Burleigh Family
    • Success, Struggles, and Sorrows: The 1850s
    • Radical Retirements: 1860-1903
  • Themes and Concepts
    • Themes and Concepts
      • Newspapers Edited by Burleighs
      • The Life of an Anti-Slavery Agent
      • African-American Allies and Associates of the Burleigh Siblings
      • Anti-Racism: Definitions and Examples
      • Women's Rights
      • Queer Subtexts
      • Understanding the Temperance Cause
      • Pacifism and Non-Resistance in Theory and Practice
      • Utopia and Religion
      • Transcendentalism
      • Aesthetics, the Arts, and Social Change
      • Pilgrims
      • Geography: Range and Mobility
      • Networks of Friends, Neighbors, Close Associates
      • Glimpses of Technological Change
    • Newspapers Edited by Burleighs
    • The Life of an Anti-Slavery Agent
    • African-American Allies and Associates of the Burleigh Siblings
    • Anti-Racism: Definitions and Examples
    • Women's Rights
    • Queer Subtexts
    • Understanding the Temperance Cause
    • Pacifism and Non-Resistance in Theory and Practice
    • Utopia and Religion
    • Transcendentalism
    • Aesthetics, the Arts, and Social Change
    • Pilgrims
    • Geography: Range and Mobility
    • Networks of Friends, Neighbors, Close Associates
    • Glimpses of Technological Change