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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.
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.
A number of fugitive slaves lived in the area and Isaac J. Rice established himself as a missionary, operating a school for black children. [ 5 ] Buxton National Historic Site and Elgin settlement – Chatham, Ontario [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The Elgin settlement was established by a Presbyterian minister, Reverend William King , with fifteen former slaved ...
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Stanton's daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch, wrote the 120-page chapter on Stone and the AWSA, which appears in Volume 2. [54] Even so, the History of Woman Suffrage places Stanton, Anthony and the NWSA at the center of the movement's history and marginalizes the role of Stone and the AWSA.
After a staffer for Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez called the LAPD to watch over his broken-down Lexus, Soto-Martinez was ridiculed as a hypocrite.
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held in New York City on May 9–12, 1837, to discuss the American abolition movement. [1] This gathering represented the first time that women from such a broad geographic area met with the common purpose of promoting the anti-slavery cause among women, and it also was likely the first major convention where women discussed women's rights.
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)