mid 19th century letters Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/mid-19th-century-letters/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:40:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-MSP_Logo_100_White-32x32.png mid 19th century letters Archives - Mystic Seaport Museum https://mysticseaport.org/tag/mid-19th-century-letters/ 32 32 Letters From the Colored Sailor’s Home in the Mid 19th Century https://mysticseaport.org/news/letters-from-the-colored-sailors-home/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:26:20 +0000 https://mysticseaport.wpengine.com/?p=367185 The G.W. Blunt White Library manuscript collection at Mystic Seaport Museum recently offered up an exciting find in the form of reports and correspondence relating to the Colored Sailors’ Home(s) run by the American Seamen’s Friend Society in the mid-19th century. As the name suggests, these were boarding houses specifically for sailors of color; the […]

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