The World of James McCune Smith

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An Address Delivered by James M. Smith, Aged 11 Years, in the New York African Free School, to General Lafayette, on the Day He Visited the…
Again, it’s been a little while since I’ve been able to write a new post for this site.
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“A Young American”
James McCune Smith’s Letter to the Editor of the Glasgow Chronicle
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James McCune Smith Biography and Works Projects: An Update
Dear friends,
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Gerrit Smith Papers at Syracuse University
This post is rather late: I intended to write one before I returned home from New York, but between one thing or another (weariness from long days of…
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Madison County Historical Society, Hamilton College, and Peterboro
After my second day scouring folders at the Sydney Howard Gay papers at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library that I had run out of time…
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St Philip's Site on Mulberry Street and Cypress Hills Cemetery
It’s 6:30am in New York City, and I’m writing in my room on the 19th floor of the Holiday Inn on Nassau Street, one block south from where the teenaged…
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At St Philip's Episcopal Church
I spent much of my first day of my New York research trip not in the archives, but at St Philip’s Episcopal Church, where James McCune Smith had been a…
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The World of James McCune Smith
The World of James McCune Smith
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