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42 unusual facts about Abolitionism in the United States


Abby Folsom

Abigail Folsom (died 1867) was a 19th-century American feminist and abolitionist.

African Theatre

The troupe performed plays by Shakespeare and plays written by Brown, several of which were anti-colonization and anti-slavery.

Alfred Shea Addis

As the potential for civil war heated up, the abolitionists increased their stronghold in Leavenworth and violence broke out there when Missouri seceded from the Union in November 1862, prompting Brigadier General James G. Blunt to proclaim martial law.

Anthony Ellmaker Roberts

Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (October 29, 1803—January 23, 1885), was an American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1859, an abolitionist and close associate of Thaddeus Stevens.

Betsy Mix Cowles

Betsy Mix Cowles (February 9, 1810 – July 25, 1876) was an early leader in the United States abolitionist movement.

Bloomer Girl

The American Civil War is looming, and abolitionist Evelina refuses to marry suitor Jeff Calhoun until he frees his slave, Pompey.

Caleb S. Layton

He was strongly opposed to slavery, and, as a member of the Legislature, caused the first abolition bill to be introduced in the State of Delaware.

Caroline Lee Hentz

Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800, Lancaster, Massachusetts – February 11, 1856, Marianna, Florida) was an American novelist and author, most noted for her opposition to the abolitionist movement and her widely-read rebuttal to the popular anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Charles C. Painter

Charles C. Painter (b unknown -1895) was an American abolitionist, Native American advocate and Congregational minister.

Cincinnati in the American Civil War

Antebellum Cincinnati played a large role in the abolitionist movement, partially due to its location as a major city in the free state of Ohio directly across the river from the slave state Kentucky.

Constance Jackson

In 2008, Ms. Jackson also authored a book about abolitionist Lydia Maria Child with the same title, Over the River…Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom.

Durhamville, Tennessee

After the abolition of slavery, sharecropping was the primary means of income for low income families in the area.

Effingham Capron

Effingham Capron, was a Quaker, who became an ardent abolitionist in the anti-slavery movement of the pre-Civil War period and was the head of the local branch of the Underground Railroad.

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (15 August 1787 Boston - 26 January 1860 Brookline, Massachusetts) was an author and abolitionist.

Frances Jennings Casement

Her father Charles C. Jennings was a politician active in the abolition movement in the 1830s.

Free and Rowdy Party

The word Free in the party's name did not connote a support of the abolitionist movement.

Freedom, Pennsylvania

One of the reasons the society left Indiana was because of harassment for their abolitionist activities.

George N. Stearns

He was a member of the Republican party and was an abolitionist, taking an active part in the celebrated Jerry Rescue case in Syracuse, although he always refused to serve in any public office.

Holton, Kansas

They named the new town in honor of E. D. Holton, the Milwaukee abolitionist.

Jacob Dolson Cox

Cox was a Whig and had voted for Winfield Scott in 1852, having strong family abolitionist ties.

James Miller McKim

James Miller McKim (November 10, 1810 – June 13, 1874) was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist.

Jeremiah Boyle

Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (May 22, 1818 – July 28, 1871) was a successful lawyer and noted abolitionist.

John Beeson

John Beeson (1803 - 1889) was an abolitionist and early Native American advocate.

John Covode

John Covode (March 17, 1808 – January 11, 1871) was a United States Congressman and abolitionist.

John S. Folk

During 1854, he led police during the Angel Gabriel riot as well as violence among abolitionists and volunteer firefighters.

Joshua Reed Giddings

Giddings campaigned for John C. Fremont and Abraham Lincoln, although Giddings and Lincoln disagreed over the uses of extremism in the anti-slavery movement.

Lincoln and Liberty

The song expresses themes of abolitionism and log cabin virtues, with the chorus also expansively establishing Lincoln as a favorite son of three states (Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois).

Littleton Prince

There is no reference to Prince having been a member of any abolitionist organization, or connected with the Underground Railroad.

Luca Family Singers

Like the Hutchinsons, the Lucas were active in abolitionism, and began performing in 1850 at abolitionist meetings.

Margaret Hope Bacon

She is primarily known for her biographies and works involving Quaker women’s history and the abolitionist movement.

Morris Lyon Buchwalter

Politically, Buchwalter identified with the Republican Party, being a bridge figure between the abolition movement and the Progressive era.

Osawatomie, Kansas

Settled by abolitionists in hopes of aiding Kansas' entry to the United States as a free state, the community of Osawatomie and pro slavery communities nearby were quickly engaged in violence.

Richard H. Cain

Richard Harvey Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was a minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879.

Scalawag

White Southern Republicans included formerly closeted Southern abolitionists as well as former slaveowners who supported equal rights for freedmen.

Steele MacKaye

His father, Colonel James M. MacKaye, was a successful attorney and an ardent abolitionist; Steele's mother died when he was young.

Swissvale, Pennsylvania

Named for a farmstead owned by abolitionist and early feminist Jane Swisshelm, during the industrial age it was the site of the Union Switch and Signal Company of George Westinghouse.

The Blue Mountains, Ontario

Captain Charles Stuart- Anglo-American abolitionist who helped freed slaves make their way to Ontario via the Underground Railroad

The Journal of Commerce

Gerard Hallock and David Hale, partners in the JoC, were fervent abolitionists, but also decried the tactics of the war wing of the Republican Party.

Theodore Dwight Weld

Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895), was one of the leading architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years, from 1830 through 1844.

Thom Nickels

He returned to Boston, where he lived in the house once owned by Civil War abolitionist Charles Sumner on Hancock Street in Beacon Hill.

Thomas L. Kane

Thomas Leiper Kane (January 27, 1822 – December 26, 1883) was an American attorney, abolitionist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War.

William J. Landram

A supporter of emancipation, he voted in 1849 to abolish slavery in Kentucky.


Alexander Darnes

After the war and emancipation, Darnes gained an education; he earned his undergraduate degree at Lincoln University and earned his medical degree from Howard University in 1880.

Clotel

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown, an escaped slave from Kentucky who was active on the anti-slavery circuit.

Dred Scott

Her new husband, Calvin C. Chaffee, was an abolitionist, who shortly after their marriage was elected to the U.S. Congress.

Édouard René de Laboulaye

During the American Civil War, he was a zealous advocate of the Union cause and the abolition of slavery, publishing histories of the cultural connections of the two nations.

Ethnic groups in Syracuse, New York

Syracuse was an active center for the abolitionist movement, due in large part to the influence of Gerrit Smith and a group allied with him, mostly associated with the Unitarian Church and their pastor The Reverend Samuel May in Syracuse, as well as with Quakers in nearby Skaneateles, supported as well by abolitionists in many other religious congregations.

Father Lamson

Father Silas Lamson was a 19th-century American eccentric who would appear at abolitionist meetings, in a long white beard and white robe, and carrying a large scythe, in the fashion of Death or Father Time.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is a Maryland state park dedicated to the life and work of abolitionist and Underground Railroad activist Harriet Tubman.

Hartford Baptist Church

They passed anti-Masonic resolutions in the 1820s and 1830s, recruited local soldiers into the Union Army out of fervent abolitionism and later suffered the burning of their third church due to their advocacy of temperance and support for local dry laws.

History of fair trade

In 1827 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a moral and economic boycott of slave-derived goods began with the formation of the "Free Produce Society", founded by Thomas M'Clintock and other abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Hospital Sketches

The first of the sketches was published on May 22, 1863, in the abolitionist magazine Boston Commonwealth edited by family friend Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Charles Pickard Ware, an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it.

Paul P. Hastings

His mother's father was Pardee Butler, a Kansas pioneer and preacher, active in the abolition movement before the American Civil War.

Somersett's Case

These lawyers included Francis Hargrave, a young lawyer who made his reputation with this, his first case, and the famous Irish lawyer and orator John Philpott Curran whose lines in defence of Somersett were often quoted by American abolitionists (such as Frederick Douglass).

Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston

They were written in response to the publication of the bestselling abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, released in book form in 1852, and were read both in the North and the South.

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848

Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, James Monroe, DeWitt Clinton, Thomas Hart Benton, James Polk, Democratic Party, Whigs, abolitionists, evangelical Protestant sects, and slaveholders.

Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School

The school was named in honor of local resident, Quaker poet, and slavery abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.

William Henry Brisbane

Reverend Dr. William Henry Brisbane (October 12, 1806 Beaufort County, South Carolina - April 5, 1878 Arena, Wisconsin) was a Baptist minister of the southern United States who, having convinced himself of the immorality of slavery, freed and settled a group of slaves he had inherited, and became an active abolitionist.

William Weston Patton

Patton took an earnest part in the anti-slavery movement, and was chairman of the committee that presented to President Lincoln, 13 September 1862, the memorial from Chicago asking him to issue a proclamation of emancipation.