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Lucy Stanton was born free, the only child of Margaret and Samuel Stanton, on October 16, 1831. [4] When her biological father Samuel, a barber, died when she was only 18 months old, Stanton's mother married John Brown, [5] an abolitionist famous around Cleveland, Ohio, for his participation in the Underground Railroad.
Periods; Timeline; Atlantic slave trade; Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period
By the 1940s and 1950s, Conant Gardens was relatively well-populated. The residents were primarily Black businesspeople, lawyers, ministers, and teachers. [11] In 1950, in terms of all neighborhoods with over 500 black people, the median income of black families and unrelated individuals of the tracts 603 and 604, respectively, were the highest in Detroit; the tracts correspond to Conant Gardens.
Society: 1. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known as the “Father of Black History,” started the first Negro History Week in 1926 to ensure students would learn Black history. It grew into Black History ...
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1787–1807? (British, aka Abolition Society) Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, 1823–1838 (British, aka Anti-Slavery Society) Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (American)
The second was Manifest Destiny, the expansion of a free society westward across the continent. [4] The economic realities in the south precluded the development of a strong abolitionist base, while the lack of slavery among the industrialized north, neither supported nor abhorred the abolitionist cause. [ 4 ]
Laura Haviland became a member of the society. [11] The Michigan Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1836 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. [17] George DeBaptiste was considered to be the "president" of the Detroit Underground Railroad, William Lambert the "vice president" or "secretary", and Laura Haviland the "superintendent". [18]
Members of the Chatham community were notified in September 1858 that a white man was traveling with a black boy through Canada and to Detroit, Michigan. W. R. Merwin transported a 10-year-old boy [9] or teen Sylvanus Demarest on a train from London, Ontario, to Detroit, Michigan, in the United States. [10] [11] [12] He was also known as Venus. [4]