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Delegates at the National Convention of Colored Men in Syracuse, NY founded the National Equal Rights Leagues and attempted to form state-level Equal Rights League chapters across the United States. In response to a denial of African American admittance to the National Labor Union, community leaders formed the Colored National Labor Union (CNLU ...
This speech made Henry Garnet a controversial and well-known abolitionist. His speech influenced subsequent colored conventions and anti-slavery literature to increase calls for action, especially to slaves. [14] [5] [15] The speech was written about in several black newspapers, including The Liberator and The North Star. The Liberator wrote ...
Howard Holman Bell (March 13, 1913 – January 14, 2012) was a scholar of African American history. [1] His book Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864 was published in 1969.
The 1847 National Convention of Colored People and Their Friends, held in Troy, New York, established a newspaper that would report on the future conventions. [1] Noteworthy black abolitionists in attendance included Henry Highland Garnet , who was hosting the convention in his church, and Frederick Douglass , who gave a speech asking blacks to ...
The 1830 convention at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia was led by Bishop Richard Allen, the founder of the National Negro Convention. [4] [5] It was held on September 15, 1830, and lasted ten-days. [6]
Grice was born in rural Calvert County, Maryland, in the early 1800s. [2] The historian Lucien Holness gives Grice's year of birth as 1801. [3] A biographical sketch of Grice written in 1867 and published in Elevator, the newspaper of the Afro-American League of California and the American Citizens' Equal Rights Association of the State of California, listed his date of birth as being "in the ...
In the hurried 48 hours before the convention began, Trump aides not only rewrote his speech but also sent a message to other convention speakers to soften some of their remarks.
The only book-length work on Wright is the 2005 Princeton Theological Seminary master's thesis by Daniel Paul Morrison. Titled, Theodore Sedgwick Wright (1794-1847): Early Princeton Theological Seminary Abolitionist, the theses reconstructs the biography of the man and offers insight into Wright struggle with the faculty of Princeton Seminary ...