Lane County was named after James H. Lane who was a leader of the Jayhawker abolitionist movement and served as one of the first U. S. Senators from Kansas.

Lane was named after James H. Lane, a leader of the Jayhawkers abolitionist movement, who served as one of the first Senators from Kansas.

Six women and six men served as pallbearers, including sculptor Anne Whitney, and Stone's old abolitionist friends Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Joseph May.

His work with the Freemen ’ s Bureau served as an extension of his work as an abolitionist.

Ellery also served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and by 1785 he had become an abolitionist.

During the Civil War, at the behest of the abolitionist Martin Delany, she served as a recruiting officer to enlist black volunteers for the Union Army in the state of Indiana.

Additionally, Walker served as a Boston agent and a writer for New York's short-lived but influential Freedom's Journal, the first abolitionist newspaper published by blacks in the United States.

The Columbian Orator served as an inspiration to many orators, including the African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who purchased a copy as a young man and used it to develop his powerful public speaking style.

Todd ’ s home in Tabor served not only as a ‘ station ’ on the Underground Railroad, complete with a concealed room in which escaped slaves hid until their next ride arrived < ref > Tabor Historical Society, Tabor, Iowa < http :// www. taborhistoricalsociety. org /></ ref >, but also as a storehouse of weapons, ammunition and other supplies for radical abolitionist John Brown.

Dodge was also a noted abolitionist, and Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance Society from 1865 to 1883.

Ames ' father was a Christian pacifist, but his grandfather was a radical abolitionist who carried out guerrilla actions with John Brown before the American Civil War, served as a chaplain with the Union forces in that war, and incited his congregation to join up and serve in it ; as Ames remarks, " He preached this town into the war.

It is likely that Tubman was by this time working with abolitionist Thomas Garrett, a Quaker working in Wilmington, Delaware.

Wilmington Quaker, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “ conductor ” Thomas Garrett helped him buy land for the Mother Church on French Street in Wilmington, Delaware.

In 1768, recognizing Allen's early genius, Chew sold Allen, then eight years old, and all members of his immediate family to Stokley Sturgis, a known abolitionist and owner of a neighboring property in Delaware.

Hunn's father, also John Hunn, was a noted abolitionist and chief engineer of the Underground Railroad in Delaware.

Ruiz Belvis returned to Madrid in 1865, as a representative for the abolitionist cause in front of the Cortes Generales.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

Theodore S. Wright ( 1797-1847 ) was an African-American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor.

First published in serialized form from 1851 – 52 ( in the abolitionist journal National Era ), and in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe quickly became the best-selling novel of the 19th century ( and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible ).

Halsted has had several names, originally known as " Egyptian Road " because it led to the Little Egypt area of Illinois, it was subsequently known as First Street, then Dyer Street, after Charles Volney Dyer, a prominent Chicago physician and abolitionist.

After returning to the US, Douglass produced some abolitionist newspapers: The North Star, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass ' Paper, Douglass ' Monthly and New National Era.

* 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

Also, future revolutionary leader Maximilien de Robespierre and abolitionist Abbé Grégoire were awarded by the National Academy of Metz in 1784 and 1787, respectively, for their essays on capital punishment and in favor of the education of underprivileged people and the religious tolerance.

Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared as a 40-week serial in National Era, an abolitionist periodical, starting with the June 5, 1851, issue.

Beginning in 1843 he edited a daily paper, the Herald, and in 1847 assumed control of the new abolitionist publication, the National Era, in Washington, D. C.

On August 26, 1852, Sumner, despite strenuous efforts to dissuade him, delivered his first major speech, titled with a popular abolitionist motto: " Freedom National ; Slavery Sectional ".

Beginning in 1847, Whittier was editor of Gamaliel Bailey's The National Era, one of the most influential abolitionist newspapers in the North.

( The abolitionist Frederick Douglass later took over the paper and renamed it The New National Era.

In 1918 at the biennial convention of the National Association Of Colored Woman ( NACW ) she was acknowledged for making the largest contribution to save the Anacostia ( Washington, DC ) house of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

He was also an ardent slavery abolitionist, and is portrayed in the huge canvass depicting Clarkson's opening address at the world's first International Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840, in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Lincoln and Johnson ran together under the banner of the National Union Party, which brought together Republicans ( with the exception of some hard-line abolitionist Radical Republicans who backed John C. Frémont, who eventually dropped out of the race after brokering a deal with Lincoln ) and the War Democrats ( the minority of Democrats who backed Lincoln's prosecution of the war, as opposed to the Peace Democrats, or Copperheads, who favored a negotiated settlement with the Confederates ).

The women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention ; many of the activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement.

At the Agents ’ Convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1836, Grimké became acquainted with Theodore Dwight Weld, a member of the New England Weld Family, and an abolitionist leader and suffragist.

An avid abolitionist, he was a delegate to the historic Gamble Convention in March 1861, in which Missouri agreed to stay in the Union.

Brown became active in the abolitionist movement in Buffalo by joining several anti-slavery societies and the Negro Convention Movement.

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society apparently still exists, dedicated to the cause of racial justice, and is thus the oldest abolitionist organization in the nation, if not the world.

Douglass ' change of position on the Constitution was one of the most notable incidents of the division in the abolitionist movement after the publication of Spooner's book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery in 1846.

* Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803 – 1895 ), the author of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, an evangelical abolitionist who was born in town, where he lived until 1825 when his family moved to upstate New York.

She published a poem on Slavery in 1788, and was for many years a friend of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and a leading abolitionist, who drew her into the group of prominent campaigners against the slave trade such as Wilberforce, Charles Middleton and James Ramsay, based at Teston, Kent.

Bok's autobiography, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America, published by St. Martin's Press, chronicles his life, from his early youth, his years in captivity, to his work in the United States as an abolitionist.

Already an abolitionist, Oastler, after a lengthy meeting with Wood, decided to join the struggle for factory legislation, and wrote a letter on the subject of " Yorkshire Slavery " to the Leeds Mercury newspaper.

His 1857 book, Pictures of Slavery in Church and State, was influential in abolitionist circles.