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The Burleigh Family: Who They Were, and Why They Matter
Causes and Tangents
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 and 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 the Family Story
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
Thematic Vectors in the Burleigh Story
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
Secondary Sources and Archival Collections that Focus on the Burleigh Family
Coming Burleigh Attractions
Major Abolitionist Events
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Abolitionist Schism 1840
May 12-15 NYC London Conference
Destruction of the Canterbury Female Academy
Dred Scott-v-Sandford Supreme Court Decision
Etching of Nighttime Fire in Pennsylvania Hall
Note that the fire department is aiming their hoses at adjacent buildings rather than the fully engulfed Pennsylvania Hall.
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Harper's Ferry Raid
Jerry Rescue
John Brown Execution
John Pierpont
Mobbing of Cyrus Moses, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Mobbing of William Lloyd Garrison in Boston
Notice of July 1834 arrest of William Burleigh
Pennsylvania Hall
Pennsylvania Hall as it appeared when finished.
Pennsylvania Hall on fire
Pennsylvania Hall on fire
Pennsylvania Hall: Opening and Destruction
Prudence Crandall House
Part of a series of postcards entitled The American Scene. Number 110 in that series
Prudence Crandall Museum, 2023
Schedule for Pennsylvania Hall meetings
Tentative schedule mentions talks scheduled for William Burleigh and, if he returns in time (which he did) from Charles C. Burleigh. Of course, some of these meetings did not happen due to the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall
The burnt-out shell of Pennsylvania Hall
The Tocsin
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