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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]
University of Detroit Mercy Black Abolitionist Archive, a collection of more than 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. Abolitionist movement Archived 7 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine; Raymond James Krohn, "Abolitionist Movement", Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in the United States
According to the Encyclopedia of Slavery and Abolition in the United States, Weld held the positions of Manager, 1833–1835, and Corresponding Secretary, 1839–1840. [36] Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography states that "in 1836 he...was appointed by the American Anti-slavery Society editor of its books and pamphlets." [37]
Many prominent black and white abolitionists were founders and members including Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, William Goodell, Gerrit Smith, and John Brown. It did not elect a candidate to office, rather made significant contributions to political discourse and helped shape the Republican Party's future platform on slavery.
Samuel Ringgold Ward and Henry Highland Garnet were among the nationally renowned Black abolitionists to address the convention. In Connecticut, the state Liberty Party was founded by James W. C. Pennington and Amos Beman, two locally prominent Black abolitionists. As Garrisonianism fell out of favor with Black abolitionists in the 1840s, Black ...