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Cuyahoga County delegates blocked antiblack provisions from the 1851 constitution. [4] Under the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, free Blacks were kidnapped and conscripted into slavery, as suspected fugitive slaves had no rights in court and could not defend themselves against accusations. [5]
The Oberlin rescuers at the Cuyahoga County Jail in April 1859. The Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of 1858 in was a key event in the history of abolitionism in the United States. A cause celèbre and widely publicized, thanks in part to the new telegraph, it is one of the series of events leading up to Civil War.
Central Ohio Rescue and Restore is an organization that provides "a collaborative community response to human trafficking in central Ohio through education, services, advocacy, and prosecution." [8] Summit County Collaborative Against Human Trafficking is an organization centered in Summit County that seeks to increase awareness of human ...
Ohio was a destination for escaped African Americans slaves before the Civil War. In the early 1870s, the Society of Friends members actively helped former black slaves in their search of freedom. The state was important in the operation of the Underground Railroad .
In 1865, following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, but it included an exception that allows slavery to be used as punishment for a crime.
More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of slavery — forced ...
Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892) was an American abolitionist and political activist who was active in Ohio and later in Kansas, during and after the American Civil War, where he worked for black suffrage and other civil rights.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said a suburban Cleveland man accused of illegal voting died in December 2022. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost brought charges against dead man for ...