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John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Abolitionists in the Ohio Valley. For an enslaved person seeking freedom, crossing the Ohio River from Kentucky to Indiana or Ohio was usually a dangerous and daunting task. This region held a place of great importance during the years of slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Jul 7, 2021 · Many of us are familiar with a few of the main figures of the abolitionist movement such as William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimké, John Brown and even Harriet Tubman. These figures and others fought feverishly against the institution of slavery all over the country, both on moral and economic grounds.
Born in slavery on the cotton plantation of Thomas and Anne Newton Williamson in Spartansburg district, South Carolina, John was one of seven children of Pompey and Terak: Teller, George, Lenny, Isaac, John Newton, Benjamin Franklin, and Makely.
Sep 19, 2024 · The cotton boom led to the transfer of more slaves from the Upper South to the Lower South. By 1860, the majority or near-majority of the population in the Deep South — South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana — was black.
May 6, 2003 · The jail's original chimney faced the Ohio River, the boundary between slavery and freedom and the same fickle water to which Captain Anderson, who is buried 100 yards from where the jail...
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The Ohio Anti-Slavery Society (1835–1845) was an abolitionist Anti-Slavery Society established in Zanesville, Ohio, by American activists such as Gamaliel Bailey, Asa Mahan, John Rankin, Charles Finney and Theordore Dwight Weld.
