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- 2001-2005 (Creation)
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Material relating to the Welsh-American abolitionist Jessie Donaldson, including information booklets, exhibition panel texts, etc relating to the multi-media presentation on Jessie Donaldson by Jen Wilson and other members of Women in Jazz as part of Black History Month, October 2002; photocopied texts from printed sources and printouts from online sources relating to the life and work of Jessie Donaldson; correspondence, including mainly emails between Jen Wilson and Patricia Donaldson-Mills, whose husband was a descendant of Francis Donaldson's family line; Heineken/Donaldson family tree (text faint); and enquiry sheets.
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Enquiry sheets and correspondence between Jen Wilson and Patricia Donaldson-Mills arranged chronologically.
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- English
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Jessie Donaldson (née Heineken) was born in Swansea in 1799 into a staunch abolitionist family. In 1840, Jessie married Francis Donaldson, also of Swansea, and, in 1854, the couple emigrated to Clermont County, Cincinnati to join members of Francis' family who had already settled there, all of whom were active abolitionists. Francis and Jessie set up a 'safe house' on the banks of the Ohio River to shelter fugitive slaves fleeing their plantations in neighbouring Kentucky. In 1875, Jessie returned to live in Swansea and died there in 1889.
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- Donaldson, Jessie, 1799-1889 (Subject)