Dr. Jesse Harvey & Elizabeth Burgess Harvey ~ Teaching Against Slavery

I would again like to thank Ruth Dobyns for her presentation during our last podcast about the Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center located at Wlmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.  She spoke about the Walthall family that settled near Dover Monthly Meeting of Friends in the late 1820s. 

The Heritage Center is now hosting the display: "Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to Present", and, the next exhibit will be "Some Considerations on Keeping Negroes, John Woolman and Other Anti-Slavery Friends"(April 1-June 22) which is being shown in conjunction with the upcoming Quaker Genealogy & History Conference in April on the topic of Anti-Slavery.  

I would highly encourage our listeners, those who have any Quaker artifacts or journals in their possession and are wondering what to do with them, to consider a gift to the Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center.

In our last podcast concerning a local Quaker involved in anti-slavery, we examined the life of "Public Friend"  Thomas Arnett, an Orthodox Quaker Traveling Minister and preacher.  Today we will tell the story of another local Orthodox Quaker, Dr. Jesse Harvey, and his wife Elizabeth Burgess Harvey who lived in Harveysburg.  This family of educators and physicians was involved in the founding of the first Black School in Ohio at Harveysburg, the founding of the Harveysburg Academy (High School), were conductors on the Underground Railroad, and were ministers to the Shawnee Indians at the Quaker Shawnee Mission and School in Wapakoneta, Ohio and then later in Kansas Territory after the Shawnee were forced to migrate west in 1833.

Dover Monthly Meetinghouse websites:

http://qugenswohio.blogspot.com/2005/09/dover-monthly-meeting-of-society-of.html, and,

http://www.doverfriends.info/ 

 "Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to Present" websites: 

http://www2.wilmington.edu/about/news.cfm?news_id=1000&archive=no, and,

http://www.quakerbooks.org/silent_witness.php  

 John Woolman websites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woolman, and,

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WooJour.html 

 Dr. Jesse Harvey & Elizabeth Burgess Harvey (Mendenhall) websites:

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2007/01/harveysburg-academies-co.html (The Harveysburg Academies & Strife Over Abolition), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2006/12/obituary-of-dr.html (An Obituary of Dr. Jesse Harvey), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/10/elizabeth-burgess-harvey-mendenhall.html (Elizabeth Burgess Harvey Mendenhall), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/08/black-school-in-harveysburg-ohiothe.html (The Black School in Harveysburg, Ohio), and,

http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/2005/08/zion-baptist-african-american-church.html (Zion Baptist African-American Church, the old Academy).

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php.

 
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