They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass for Vice President.

There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

In 1868, in an effort to drum up support for Tubman's claim for a Civil War military pension, a former abolitionist named Salley Holley wrote an article claiming US $ 40, 000 " was not too great a reward for Maryland slaveholders to offer for her.

William Wilberforce ( MP, and abolitionist of the slave trade ) and Sir Stamford Raffles ( founder of colonial Singapore ) both briefly resided here, the former being the patron of Mill Hill ’ s first church, Saint Paul ’ s.

When Wise presided over the hanging of abolitionist John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859, abolition supporters renamed it to Morris County in honor of Thomas Morris, a former United States Senator from Ohio who was an opponent of slavery.

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818 – 1895 ), former slave and noted abolitionist leader, appointed U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia in 1877

The town was used to relocate former slaves, in part the work of Gerrit Smith, an abolitionist, and in part the result of Civil War veterans inviting freed slaves to return home with them.

The schism was cemented by the decision of Republican lawmakers and their former abolitionist allies that this was " the Negro's hour ," leaving woman suffrage to be deferred to a more opportune moment.

Frederick Douglass, a former slave and publisher of a Rochester, New York, abolitionist newspaper, attended the convention.

Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin College.

In 1846 Clarkson received the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave who had escaped to freedom, on his first visit to England.

Ironically, the Harper's Ferry Armory was destroyed during the American Civil War at the incitement of former Springfield resident and abolitionist, John Brown.

At the 1848 presidential election, the Barnburners left the Democratic Party, refusing to support presidential nominee Lewis Cass, and instead joining with other anti-slavery groups, predominantly the abolitionist Liberty Party and some anti-slavery Whigs in New England and the Midwest, to form the Free Soil Party, which nominated former President Van Buren to run again for the presidency.

Following his liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher.

They had hoped that their new faith would be more accepting of their abolitionist beliefs than had been their former.

In 1847 Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became an abolitionist leader, commenced publishing a newspaper " The North Star " in Rochester.

In the late 1990s the high school was renamed for former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass and is now a part of the KIPP Family Schools as KIPP Renaissance.

Between October 1879 and 1883, Standing Bear traveled in the eastern United States and Europe, speaking about Indian rights in forums sponsored by Indian advocate and former abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

Levi Coffin was also an active abolitionist, helping thousands of escaped slaves migrate to Canada and opening a store for selling products made by former slaves.

In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the former slave and abolitionist writer Douglass describes how he " got hold " of a copy of the Columbian Orator at age 12, an event with far-reaching consequences for his life.

Other political figures to come from Kent / Franklin Township include Wisconsin governor Lucius Fairchild, former U. S. Representative Robert E. Cook, and noted abolitionist John Brown, who lived in the township from 1835 – 1839.

They were stirred by many speeches by abolitionist activists, most notably Anthony Paul Dostie and former Governor of Louisiana George Michael Hahn.

George Boxley ( 1780 – 1865 ) was a white abolitionist and former slaveholder who allegedly tried to coordinate a local slave rebellion on March 6, 1815 while living in Spotsylvania, Virginia.

The former abolitionist wrote,

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

Persuaded in part by Lane's abolitionist views, Alcott took a stand against the John Tyler administration's plan to annex Texas as a slave territory and refused to pay his poll tax.

One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

* 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

In the 1860s, David Livingstone's reports of atrocities within the Arab slave trade in Africa stirred up the interest of the British public, reviving the flagging abolitionist movement.

Northup gave nearly two dozen lectures throughout the Northeast on his experiences as a slave, in order to support the abolitionist cause.

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.

Hentz's 1854 novel, widely-read at the time but now largely forgotten, offers a defense of slavery as seen through the eyes of a northern woman — the daughter of an abolitionist, no less — who marries a southern slave owner.

This letter became crucial in debates in Great Britain about the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade as the authorship of a purported indigenous African abolitionist.

After abolitionist movements led by such people as Samuel de Missy, the slave trade of La Rochelle ended with the onset of the French Revolution and the war with England in the 1790s, the last La Rochelle slave ship, the Saint-Jacques being captured in 1793 in the Gulf of Guinea.

Sheridan, once the second largest town in Hamilton County, lies on the south edge of land originally owned by George Boxley, a merchant and miller in Virginia who had fled from there ahead of bounty hunters because he was also an abolitionist suspected of fomenting a failed slave rebellion in 1815.

In 1838, Frederick Douglass, the runaway slave who became a famous abolitionist, settled in New Bedford.

He was also an avowed abolitionist whose attempts to abolish the slave trade was one of the most consistent elements of his foreign policy.

He joined the French abolitionist group Society of the Friends of the Blacks, which advocated the end of the slave trade and equal rights for free blacks.

Biddell introduced Airy to his friend Thomas Clarkson, the slave trade abolitionist who lived at Playford Hall.

On his return to Virginia, his abolitionist stance and his rumoured connection with the attempt to rescue the fugitive slave, Anthony Burns, in Boston, Massachusetts, aroused the bitter hostility of his old neighbours and friends.