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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
Pages in category "African-American abolitionists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 219 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 Abraham Lincoln and later by Martin Luther King Jr.
Black abolitionists had the distinct problem of having to confront an often-hostile American public, while still acknowledging their nationality and struggle. [144] As a result, many black abolitionists "intentionally adopted aspects of British, New England, and Midwestern cultures". [144]
Few today would include Rankin in a list of notable abolitionists. Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison are renowned, and rightly so. ... Black leaders like James Forten in Philadelphia ...
A convention of abolitionists was called for December 4, 1833, at the Adelphi Building in Philadelphia. [ 11 ] : 68 The convention had 62 delegates, of which 21 were Quakers . At this point, the American Anti-Slavery Society formed to appeal to the moral and practical circumstances that, at this point, propped up a pro-slavery society.
Some abolitionists said that slavery was criminal and a sin; they also criticized slave owners of using black women as concubines and taking sexual advantage of them. [ 72 ] The Republican Party wanted to achieve the gradual extinction of slavery by market forces, because its members believed that free labour was superior to slave labour.
OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...