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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]
Abolitionism in the United States; Category:African-American abolitionists; John Brown's raiders#Black participation; List of notable opponents of slavery; Slavery in the United States; Texas Revolution; Underground Railroad; United States Colored Troops
American abolitionism began well before the United States was founded as a nation. In 1652, Rhode Island made it illegal for any person, black or white, to be "bound" longer than ten years. The law, however, was widely ignored, [10] and Rhode Island became involved in the slave trade in 1700. [11]
American abolitionists by state (22 C) A. African-American abolitionists (219 P) American reparationists (30 P) B. John Brown (abolitionist) (6 C, 20 P) L.
Read More: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in 1830’s America. The first few decades of the 19th century saw a steady rise in anti-slavery thought and activity. In this period, Rankin worked ...
Maria Weston Chapman (July 25, 1806 – July 12, 1885) [1] was an American abolitionist.She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served as editor of the anti-slavery journal The Non-Resistant.
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
The Liberty Party was an abolitionist political party in the United States before the American Civil War.The party experienced its greatest activity during the 1840s, while remnants persisted as late as 1860.