Papenfuse Collection Relating to the History of Macedon Township and Wayne County, NY

MSA SC 5861

Dates

Medium

original, electronic

Restrictions

Storage

B5/02/01 [atlas]; 00/72/11/46; 00/25/10/48 [Series 4]

Description

A research collection relating to the William R. Smith Farm in Macedon, New York, where Mary and Emily Edmonson and other African American Marylanders were taught to read, write, and lecture on the Abolitionist circuits.

See Mary Kay Ricks, Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad, (New York: William Morrow, 2007)

Collection Inventory

Series 1: Atlases
Series 2: Histories
Series 3: Maps
Series 4: Objects

Microfilm Inventory