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  2. African Americans in Ohio - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. List of African American newspapers in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Ohio. The history of African American publishing in Ohio is longer than in many Midwestern states, beginning well before the Civil War. In 1843, the Palladium of Liberty became Ohio's first African American newspaper. [1]

  4. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was originally created as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [2] Its first meeting took place in Putnam, Ohio, in April of 1835, [3] and gathered delegates from 25 counties, along with four corresponding members from other states, William T. Allan, James G. Birney, James A. Thome and Ebenezer Martin. [4]

  5. List of abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    Nat Turner insurrectionist, former slave (American) Denmark Vesey insurrectionist, former slave (American) Benjamin Wade (American) David Walker (abolitionist) (son of a slave, American) Samuel Ringgold Ward (born into slavery, American) Theodore Dwight Weld (American) Charles Augustus Wheaton (American) Underground Railroad Operator, New York [31]

  6. Slave rebellion and resistance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One child survivor of American slavery retold "his parents' stories about slaves sometimes killing the bloodhounds that some whites kept for tracking runaways" [1] (Richard Ansdell, The Hunted Slaves, 1862, National Museum of African American History and Culture) Slave rebellions and resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel ...

  7. Stereotypes of groups within the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has a population of nearly 340,000,000, and as a result of the presence of such a large population, there are different ethnic groups within the nation and each of them brings its own culture, beliefs and traditions with it. The United States formally recognizes five racial categories and it also lists them on the US census.

  8. Butternut (people) - Wikipedia

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    Although northern states still practiced slavery at the time of the American Revolution, emancipation rapidly increased in these regions while slavery consolidated in the south. As the western territories were opened to settlement, most of the earliest settlers came from the south, using the easier access provided by the Ohio River .

  9. Category:Ethnic groups in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Hispanic and Latino American culture in Ohio (2 C, 6 P) J. Jews and Judaism in Ohio (8 C, 10 P) N. Native American history of Ohio (14 C, 35 P) P. Puerto Rican ...