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The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society (1835–1845) was an abolitionist Anti-Slavery Society established in Zanesville, Ohio, by American activists such as Gamaliel Bailey, Asa Mahan, John Rankin, Charles Finney and Theordore Dwight Weld.
Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, organized in Putnam, Ohio, April 22-24, 1835, later moved to Cleveland, Ohio. The Society was originally founded as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
Memorial of the Ohio Anti-slavery Society to the General Assembly of the State of Ohio R.B. Pamphlets 326 O37m Members of the society request the legislature to repeal laws that discriminate on the basis of race.
Abolitionists established the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in Zanesville at a meeting held in April 1835. Among the organization’s founders were prominent abolitionists like Asa Mahan, John Rankin, Theodore Dwight Weld, and Charles Finney.
As a new phase of anti-slavery organizing began in the 1830s, white abolitionist lecturers often faced violent mobs seeking to silence them and run them out of town. For black Ohioans, the...
Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Slavery -- United States Controversial literature 1835, African Americans -- Ohio Publisher [Putnam?] Beaumont and Wallace, printers Collection birney; americana; Johns_Hopkins_University Contributor The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries Language English Item Size 117.6M
Although Ohio was a free state, the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was constantly under attack from local citizens wherever they met. Fear was a primary motivator among those opposing the society's goals and was often displayed in mobs that physically attacked the abolitionists.
The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society affirmed itself the dominate leader in the fight to abolish slavery. Whites organized themselves into the Underground Railroad asserting themselves as the only support for fugitive slaves.
Ohio’s “Black Laws” were officially repealed in 1849—or “modified,” as one historian put it. Black citizens could now testify, regardless of litigants’ race. They no longer needed the $500 bond.
the Ohio Anti-slavery Society, which was held in Ashley A. Bancroft's barn a half-mile north of Granville on April 27 and 28, 1836. Just why this notable meeting should have been held in a. barn and what took place at the convention itself is a story worth. repeating. The fires of anti-slavery antagonism which seem to have been