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J.C. Painter letter to Benjamin Lundy
No full textLetter from J.E. Painter to (presumably) Benjamin Lundy, answering a request for information about the history and operations of the Underground Railroad. Letter includes details of a story of an ex-slave transported on the Underground Railroad through Ohio and stories of the plight of other fugitive slaves crossing the Ohio River.
Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His "Genius of Universal Emancipation" was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Mexican land grant contract to Benjamin Lundy, March 10, 1835 (English)
No full textLegal document from an unsigned officer to Benjamin Lundy, authorizing him rights as empresario to a tract of land in then-Mexico. The document extends a previous treaty made to Lundy by the government of Mexico from November 17, 1823 -- presumably, this land is to be the site of Lundy's freed slave colony. Original Spanish-language document is also a part of this collection. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Eli Nichols letter to Benjamin Lundy, March 17th, 1839
No full textFriendly note from Eli Nichols to Benjamin Lundy covering topics in contemporary abolition, ranging from the social status of abolitionists to the oppression of the poor. Much of the letter concerns a review of contemporary social movements in equality-based education, including Shaker and Quaker communities. The letter concludes in discussion of Nichols' and Lundy's interest in forming a freed slave colony or community in then-Mexico, and describes the climate and culture of those regions in detail. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Mexican land grant contract to Benjamin Lundy, March 10, 1835 (Spanish)
No full textLegal document in Spanish from the government of Tamaulipas, Mexico, to Benjamin Lundy, which appears to grant Lundy the rights of empresario for his proposed colony for freed slaves in Tamaulipas. This document appears to be truncated; it ends abruptly after 2 pages. Collection also includes a period translation of this contract with Lundy in English, which appears to contain the full text of the agreement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
General Benjamin Butler Letter Regarding the naming of Newport News, Virginia
No full textDigital images of an original letter written by Former Union Major-General Benjamin Butler in reply to a query by author, Edwin Everett Hale on how Newport News, Virginia had received it's name. both sides of the original letter are included along with a typed transcription of the letter
Holding Canada's Cities to Account: an Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management
No full textCities are the most visible level of government for most Canadians, providing services such as waste collection, policing and transit. Yet their budgets are the most opaque of any level of government. Municipalities generally use accounting in their budgets that does not match what they use in their financial reports. Peering through the messy numbers reveals that most cities routinely miss budget targets by large amounts. Councillors and taxpayers who seek to hold these municipal governments to account face a daunting task. Amid the mixed record, however, are some municipalities with clearer numbers and better records for spending control. That fact, along with improvements that have occurred at the federal and provincial levels in recent years, shows that progress is possible. The authors suggest five basic reforms would create clearer, more consistent budgets and would bring the financial management of Canada’s municipalities into line with their fiscal impact and their importance in Canadians’ lives.Fiscal & Tax Competitiveness, Governance and Public Institutions, Urban Issues Series, Canadian municipalities, fiscal management, municipal budgets
Quantification and Change Assessment Benjamin Aubrey Robson 2016 Dissertation date: 31st October 2016 of Debris-Covered Glaciers using Remote Sensing
No full textThis thesis investigates how remote sensing data can be used to assess the changing state of debris-covered ice. The principal study areas are the Manaslu Region in Nepal (papers I and III) and the Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria (paper II). Clean glacier ice is straightforward to semi-automatically classify using multi-spectral satellite imagery owing to the strong spectral signature of clean ice in the visible and near-infrared sections of the electromagnetic spectrum. Since the ablation zones of clean ice glaciers are at the pressure melting point, a change in terminus position or glacier area can be directly linked to a change in climate. Debris-covered ice is however more complicated to map and to interpret temporal change. Supraglacial debris is spectrally indistinguishable from the surrounding paraglacial terrain, and requires auxiliary data such as a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), thermal band data, or flow data. Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) provides a framework for combining multiple datasets in one analysis, while additionally allowing shape, contextual, hierarchical and textural criteria to be used to classify imagery. Paper I combines optical (Landsat-8), topographic (void-filled SRTM) and SAR coherence (ALOS PALSAR) data within an OBIA workflow to semi-automatically classify both clean ice and debris-covered ice in the challenging area surrounding Mount Manaslu in Nepal. When compared with manually delineated outlines, the classification achieved an accuracy of 91% (93% for clean ice and 83% for debriscovered ice). The classification was affected by seasonal snow and shadows while the debris-covered ice mapping was influenced by the datasets being temporally inconsistent, and the mountainous topography causing inconsistencies in the SAR coherence data. The method compares well with other automated techniques for classifying debris-covered ice, but has two additional advantages: firstly, that SAR coherence data can distinguish active ice from stagnant ice based on whether motion or significant downwasting has occured, and secondly, that the method is applicable over a large study area using just space-borne data. Paper II explores the potential of using high-resolution (10 m) topographic data and an edge detection algorithm to morphologically map the extent of debris-covered ice. The method was applied in the Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria, using a 10 m DEM derived from airborne Light Detection and Radar (LiDAR) acquisitions. Additionally, the end-of-summer transient snowline (TSL) was also mapped, which approximates the annual Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA). Our classification was applied on three Landsat satellite images from 1985, 2003 and 2013 and compared the results to the Austrian Glacier Inventories from 1969 and 1998 to derive decadal-scale glacial changes. A mean rate of glacier area reduction of 1.4 km2a-1 was calculated between 1969 and 2013 with a total reduction in area of 33%. The TSL rose by 92 m between 1985 and 2013 to an altitude of 3005 m. By comparing our results with manually delineated outlines an accuracy of 97.5% was determined. When a confusion matrix was calculated it could be seen that the results contained few false positives but some false negatives which were attributed to seasonal snow, shadows and misclassified debris. Our results correspond broadly with those found in other areas of the European Alps although a heterogeneity in glacier change is observable. We recommend that future glacier mapping investigations should utilise a combination of both SAR coherence data and high-resolution topographic data in order to delineate the extent of both active and stagnant glacier ice. Paper III investigates decadal scale changes in glacier area, velocity and volume in the previously undocumented Manaslu Region, Nepal. Between 2001 and 2013 the glacier area reduced by 8.2% (-0.68% a-1). Simultaneously, the glaciers lowered by -0.21 ± 0.08 m a-1 and had a slightly negative specific mass balance of -0.05 ± 016 m w.e a-1 although mass balances ranged -2.49 ± 2.24 to +0.27 ± 0.30 m w.e a-1 throughout the region. The geodetic mass balance for select glaciers covered by a Corona DEM between 1970 and 2013 was -0.24 ± 0.12 m w.e a-1 which became more negative (-0.51 ± 0.12 m w.e. a-1) between 2005 and 2013. Rates of surface lowering over debriscovered ice increasing by 168% between 1970 – 2000 (0.40 ± 0.18 m a-1) and 2005 – 2013 (1.07 ±0.48 m a-1). The rate of glacier melt varies due to presumed increases in debris thickness at the upper and lower boundaries of the ablation zone, while an area of enhanced glacier downwasting corresponds to the presence of supraglacial lakes and exposed ice. The glacier velocity varies across the region. Many glaciers have stagnant sections towards the glacier termini, and a trend of ongoing stagnation is observable. No relationship exists between trends in glacier area and glacier volume or velocity, although a weak relationship exists between trends in the changes of volume and velocity. The rates of glacier area and velocity change appear to be similar, although the number of glaciers that had records of area, velocity, and volume was few. Our results are comparable to studies looking at mean surface lowerings and geodetic mass balances in other areas of the Himalayas, and point towards heterogeneous yet pronounced mass losses across the Himalaya region
Cinq années de voyage en Orient 1846-1851 par Israel-Joseph Benjamin II, voyageur et auteur, demeurant à Faltischan (Moldavie). Paris en vente chez Michel Levy Frères, rue Vivienne, 2 bis 1856 L' auteur se réserve le droit de traduction et de reproduction
No full textPreface: by Benjamin, J.Dedication: by the author to M.J. Altaras aîné de Marseille et M. Albert Cohn.Content description: Detailed contentsPagination: PP28+240PVolumes: 1Text Genre:Pros
sj-pdf-1-aex-10.1177_05694345211072518 – Supplemental Material for Structured Notetaking and Student Performance in Microeconomics Courses
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-aex-10.1177_05694345211072518 for Structured Notetaking and Student Performance in Microeconomics Courses by Benjamin Artz, Denise Robson and Angel Camacho in The American Economist</p
The description and use of an orrery of a new construction : representing in the various parts of its machinery all the motions and phoenomena [i.e phenomena] of the planetary system ...
No full textby Benjamin Marti
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