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The convention delegates wrote a letter congratulating General Ulysses S. Grant for being elected President of the United States, to which Grant responded, "I thank the Convention, of which you are the representative, for the confidence they have expressed, and I hope sincerely that the colored people of the Nation may receive every protection ...
The Colored Conventions Movement began in the 1830s and sporadically met into 1893. The main goal of the convention movement was to gain freedom and call attention to the constitutional rights of slaves and African American freemen. [2] The conventions consisted of free African Americans from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Canada. [3]
The Colored Convention of 1843 was the first successful national convention since that held in 1835, [13] and it reestablished the pattern of regular conventions, increasing the opportunities for political and social discussions. It helped unite colored people in support of anti-slavery and actions towards freedom. A newspaper clipping of The ...
The Colored Conventions team comprises a diverse group of dedicated and energetic scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and librarians at the University of Delaware. Project members represent a range of academic disciplines, including English, African American History, Art and Education.
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 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens was a series of colored convention events active from 1840 until 1891 in various cities in New York state. [1] The convention was one of several social movement conventions that took place in the mid-19th century in many states across the United States.
The Colored Conventions Movement included a long series of national conventions held by free "people of color" going back decades before the American Civil War.Conventions were held in Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Rochester (New York), Syracuse, Cleveland and (after the war) Washington D.C., St. Louis, New Orleans, and Cincinnati.
The Colored National Convention of 1855 delegates ranged from famous African Americans like Frederick Douglass, and Mary Ann Shadd, [3] [4] to unknowns like Rachel Cliff. [5] [6] Other notable delegates at this event included Nathaniel W. Depee, [7] Samuel Green, [8] Catherine "Kitty" Green, [8] Robert Purvis, George T. Downing, Stephen Myers, Charles Lenox Remond, and John S. Rock. [9]