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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 .
Enforcement of Ohio's Black Laws appear to have been generally episodic and arbitrary, lightly enforced on the whole, but occasionally used to threaten and intimidate black residents of the state. In 1818 Wayne Township, where Portsmouth was located at the time, the township's constable was paid $4.18 to warn out blacks and mulattos.
The federal district, which is legally part of no state and under the sole jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, permitted slavery until the American Civil War. For the history of the abolition of the slave trade in the district and the federal government's one and only compensated emancipation program, see slavery in the District of Columbia.
The list of Underground Railroad sites includes abolitionist locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century North America before and during the American Civil War. It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end slavery in the ...
Exhibits about the history of slavery and opponents including John Brown and President Abraham Lincoln; and the American Civil War that ended it. The Struggle Continues, an exhibit portrays continuing challenges faced by African Americans since the end of slavery, struggles for freedom in today's world, and ways that the Underground Railroad ...
National Anti-Slavery Standard [5] 1840–1870 Philadelphia, New York City Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child: Newspapers.com (1840–1852) The National Era [6] 1847–1860 Washington, D.C. The North Star [7] 1847–1851: Rochester, New York: Frederick Douglass: Library of Congress: The Philanthropist [8] 1836–1843 Cincinnati, Ohio James Birney
There were other anti-abolitionist riots in New York (1834), Cincinnati (1829, 1836, and 1841), Norwich, Connecticut (1834), [178] Washington, D.C. (1835), Philadelphia (1842), and Granville, Ohio (following the Ohio State Anti-Slavery Convention, 1836), [179] although there was also a pro-abolition riot (more precisely a pro-fugitive slave ...
Anti-Slavery International, works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world; Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking, coalition representing partnerships with law enforcement, faith-based communities, non-profit organizations, social service agencies, attorneys and concerned citizens.