[Rarebooks] FS: Textile-Dealing Abolitionists in our New Catalog

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1842 + 1843 Billheads for Arthur Tappan & Co., Textile Merchants & 
Abolitionists.

A pair of billheads for a store, and man, with quite a history. Arthur 
Tappan & Co., 122 Pearl Street, Manhattan, was a pioneering and hugely 
successful importer of printed cottons and other textiles and imported 
silks before the Crash of 1837, which most writers seem to believe wiped 
out the firm, but as evidenced by these billheads, it continued into the 
1840s. But that's just the start of the story. Arthur Tappan [1786-1865] 
was an American abolitionist of enough renown that he was widely 
boycotted by Southerners for his political activities. Born in 
Northampton, Massachusetts into a Calvinist family, Arthur and his 
brother Lewis began their textile firm in New York City in 1826, and 
became a virtual overnight success. They demanded that their clerks be 
teetotalers, go to bed early, neither attend the theater or know anyone 
employed in a theater, attend church twice every Sunday and make a 
report of the services every Monday, join an abolition society, and 
attend company prayer meetings for the freeing of all slaves. In 1827 
the Tappans founded the New York Journal of Commerce with Samuel F.B. 
Morse, and after the panic of 1837 had subsided they founded the 
Mercantile Agency, America's first commercial credit-rating service, the 
direct ancestor of Dun and Bradstreet.

2 single sheets. 8"x9" and 8"x12.5". Folds, minor soil, light wear.  
[42576]  $50


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