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In Colonial America, a few German Quakers issued the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, which marked the beginning of the American abolitionist movement. Before the Revolutionary War , evangelical colonists were the primary advocates for the opposition to slavery and the slave trade, doing so on the basis of humanitarian ethics.
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the ...
They had some evidence for that suspicion. During the statewide vote on secession, German-heavy counties represented many of those, along with the abolitionist northeast part of the state, to garner a majority vote against secession. [18] Several reports at the beginning of 1862 even alleged that German communities celebrated U.S. Army ...
The Underground Railroad, 1893 depiction of the anti-slavery activities of a Northern Quaker named Levi Coffin by Charles T. Webber. The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. [1]
Derick op den Graeff (German-American), signer of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America; Samuel Oughton (American), advocate of black labour rights in Jamaica) John Parker (former slave, American) Theodore Parker (American) (1810–1860), Unitarian minister and abolitionist whose words inspired speeches by ...
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed].More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
Ottilie Davida Assing (11 February 1819 – 21 August 1884) was a German-American feminist, freethinker, and abolitionist, known for her friendship with Frederick Douglass. Early life and education [ edit ]
Adolph Douai. Karl Daniel Adolf Douai (1819 – 1888), known to his peers as "Adolf", was a German Texan teacher as well as a socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor.Douai was driven from Texas in 1856 due to his published opposition of slavery, living out the rest of his life as a school operator in the New England city of Boston.