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  2. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was originally created as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. [2] Its first meeting took place in Putnam, Ohio, in April of 1835, [3] and gathered delegates from 25 counties, along with four corresponding members from other states, William T. Allan, James G. Birney, James A. Thome and Ebenezer Martin. [4]

  3. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Ohio-native and President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act in 1910, which sought to end human trafficking and the sex slave trade. The Anti-Saloon League was founded in 1893 in Oberlin , which saw political success with the passage of the Volstead Act in 1918.

  4. Oberlin–Wellington Rescue - Wikipedia

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    Oberlin–Wellington Rescue. The Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of 1858 in was a key event in the history of abolitionism in the United States. A cause celèbre and widely publicized, thanks in part to the new telegraph, it is one of the series of events leading up to Civil War. John Price, an escaped slave, was arrested in Oberlin, Ohio, under ...

  5. Slave trade in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...

  6. Benjamin Lundy - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Lundy (January 4, 1789 – August 22, 1839) was an American Quaker abolitionist from New Jersey of the United States who established several anti-slavery newspapers and traveled widely. He lectured and published seeking to limit slavery 's expansion and tried to find a place outside the United States to establish a colony in which ...

  7. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slave shackle found while digging in a property on Baronne Street in New Orleans; donated to the Kid Ory Historic House museum. Louisiana was founded as a French colony. Colonial officials in 1724 implemented Louis XIV of France's Code Noir, which regulated the slave trade and the institution of slavery in New France and the French West Indies.

  8. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]

  9. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic; of the roughly 10–12 million Africans who were sold by the Barbary slave trade, either to European slavery or to servitude in the Americas, approximately 388,000 landed in North America.