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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
Plainfield, Connecticut
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Plainfield, Connecticut
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Specific town
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Home base for the Burleigh family
Contributor
Florence May Aldrich Burleigh
Lucian Rinaldo (L.R.) Burleigh
Ruth Burgess Burleigh
George Shepard Burleigh
Charles Calistus Burleigh
Lucian Rinaldo Burleigh
Rinaldo Burleigh
Lydia Bradford Burleigh
Cyrus Moses Burleigh
Mary Frances Burleigh
John Oscar Burleigh
William Henry Burleigh
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Plainfield Postcard, 1915
To Plainfield, Conn. On Her Two-Hundredth Anniversary
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Anti-Slavery Society of Plainfield formed
Burleighs in Plainfield, 1850 Census
Burleighs in Plainfield, 1860 Census
Old Plainfield, with the Plainfield Academy on the hill
Packerville Baptist Church, 2017
Plainfield Academy Alumni article 1913
Plainfield Academy Alumni Association meeting 1911
Plainfield Junction
Signature of Mary Burleigh
The Last Green Valley finding guide map
Items with "location: Plainfield, Connecticut"
First Congregational Church of Plainfield
Plainfield Academy building
Plainfield Anti-Slavery Society
Items with "Related Places: Plainfield, Connecticut"
Agnes Burleigh Allen
Albert Hinckley
Charles Calistus Burleigh, Jr.
Edward Porter Humphrey
Elizabeth Morse Child Burleigh
Jesse Ames
John Adams
Lillian Burleigh
Lucian Rinaldo (L.R.) Burleigh
Surviah Hinckley
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Plainfield, Connecticut