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Betsy Mix Cowles (February 9, 1810 – July 25, 1876) was an early leader in the United States abolitionist movement. She was an active and influential Ohio-based reformer, and was a noted feminist and an educator.
Eber Dudley Howe (June 9, 1798 – November 10, 1885) [1] was the founder and editor of the Painesville Telegraph, a newspaper that published in Painesville, Ohio, starting in 1822. Howe was the author of one of the first books that was critical of the spiritual claims of Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Painesville is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Ohio, United States, [4] located along the Grand River. It is a northeast suburb of Cleveland . Its population was 20,312 at the 2020 census .
David Cobb (b. between 1776 and 1794 – d. September 17, 1826) was an early 19th-century American slave trader and tobacco merchant. He was killed, along with Edward Stone, Howard Stone and two others, in the 1826 Ohio River slave revolt, by slaves they were transporting south for resale. [1]
Ohio was a destination for escaped African Americans slaves before the Civil War. In the early 1870s, the Society of Friends members actively helped former black slaves in their search of freedom. The state was important in the operation of the Underground Railroad .
Aug. 11—An estimated 100,000 slaves sought freedom in the 1800s through a network of supporters and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad, according to the National Underground Railroad ...
Wilbur Siebert, in his book The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom and The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroads, wrote "Elijah Anderson, a brave, and fearless colored man, was the general superintendent of the Underground system in this section of Ohio, and probably conducted more fugitives than any other dozen men up to the time ...
Edward Stone (c. 1782 – September 17, 1826), also known as Ned Stone, was an American slave trader.He participated in the interregional slave trade between Maryland, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana.