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  2. Chatham Vigilance Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Chatham Vigilance Committee was formulated before the American Civil War by black abolitionists in the Chatham, Ontario area to save people from being sold into slavery. Some of the members of the group were graduates of Oberlin College in Ohio. [1]

  3. Slavery in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Historian Robin Winks writes it is "the sharpest attack to come from a Canadian pen even into the 1840s; he had also brought about a public debate which soon reached the courts". [43] (Abolitionist lawyer Benjamin Kent was buried in Halifax in 1788.) In 1790 John Burbidge freed his slaves.

  4. Josiah Henson - Wikipedia

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    Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister.Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of Ontario.

  5. Category:Canadian abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Canadian abolitionists" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

  6. Mary Ann Shadd - Wikipedia

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    Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.

  7. List of abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    The RINJ Foundation, Canadian-based women's group which adduces that vigorously prosecuting buyers of slaves is the way ahead to end sexual slavery [26] [27] Truckers Against Trafficking , nonprofit organization that trains truck drivers to recognize and report instances of human trafficking [ 28 ]

  8. Samuel Bass (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Bass (1807–1853) was a white Canadian abolitionist who helped Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, attain his freedom.Northup was a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery in the Deep South.

  9. African Americans in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil ...