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The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was originally created as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [2] Its first meeting took place in Putnam, Ohio, in April of 1835, [3] and gathered delegates from 25 counties, along with four corresponding members from other states, William T. Allan, James G. Birney, James A. Thome and Ebenezer Martin. [4]
An address to the churches in relation to slavery : delivered at the first aniversary [sic] of the Ohio State [sic] Anti-slavery Society. Medina, Ohio: Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. OCLC 841409108. Rankin, John; Ohio Anti-slavery Society (1838). Report of the third anniversary of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, held in Granville, Licking County ...
In January 1836 he set up The Philanthropist, a newspaper sponsored by the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. [4] At first, the newspaper was printed in nearby New Richmond. It was distributed across the Ohio River in Kentucky and was filled with anti-slavery propaganda. This angered local Cincinnati businessmen, who were keen to do business with the ...
Charles and his brother John Mercer Langston were both Oberlin College graduates, and led the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in 1858. They both were politically active all their lives, Charles in Kansas and John taking leadership roles in state and national politics, in 1888 becoming the first African-American to be elected to the US Congress from ...
That year Langston helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society and, with his younger brother John as president, led it as executive secretary. After the American Civil War, he was appointed as general superintendent of refugees and freedmen for the Freedmen's Bureau in Kansas.
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835) Ohio Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1835) Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women (founded 1837) New York State Anti-Slavery Society, first meeting held in Utica October 19, 1836 (History of slavery in New York (state)) Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1838)
With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, ... Ohio. He supervised the Kentucky State Archives Research Room from 1985 to 2008 and was employed as Special Collections cataloger at The Filson ...
Noble's well-known works are largely historical or social/political presentations. He is best known for a series of four anti-slavery paintings. Each depicts a specific horror of slavery: The first, Last Sale of the Slaves (1865) depicted the scene of the last