Sir John Hobbis Harris (29 July 1874 – 30 April 1940) was an English missionary, campaigner against slavery and Liberal Party politician. Harris was born...
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Anti-Slavery International, founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, is an international non-governmental organisation, registered...
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1836–47. John Harris (anti-slavery campaigner) (1874–1940), English missionary, campaigner against slavery, and Liberal Party politician John Harris, Baron...
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characterised by rubber exploitation. It is part of the Harris Papers, a collection owned by Anti-Slavery International. The picture shows a man dressed only...
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Seeley's life and work. The plaque reads, "Alice Seeley, Lady Harris Anti-slavery campaigner, photographer, missionary to the Congo, artist, scourge of King...
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organizations that endorsed the Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign. Ricardo Aponte, retired brigadier general John A. Bradley, retired lieutenant general...
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Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840. It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery...
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Abolitionism in the United States (redirect from American anti-slavery movement)
American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865). The anti-slavery movement...
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the American Anti-Slavery Group, Anti-Slavery International, Free the Slaves, the Anti-Slavery Society, and the Norwegian Anti-Slavery Society continue...
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Barbary States. In order to neutralise this objection and further the anti-slavery campaign, in 1816 Britain sent Lord Exmouth to secure new concessions from...
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the territory to prepare for the vote on slavery. Abolitionist John Brown, the most famous of the anti-slavery immigrants, was active in the fighting in...
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spoils, politicians in the North pandered to the anti-slavery vote, especially during presidential campaigns, and politicians in the slave states sacrificed...
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List of abolitionists (redirect from List of notable opponents of slavery)
of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists. African Methodist Episcopal Church (American) American Anti-Slavery Society (American) American...
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Slavery in ancient Egypt existed at least since the Old Kingdom period. Discussions of slavery in Pharaonic Egypt are complicated by terminology used by...
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campaign, other Jackson rivals, including John Quincy Adams, joined in denouncing the Masons. In 1832, the Anti-Masonic Party fielded William Wirt as its...
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Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with...
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during the Civil War. Harris rose to prominence in state politics in the late 1840s when he campaigned against the anti-slavery initiatives of northern...
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Ottobah Cugoano (redirect from John Stuart (abolitionist))
November 2020. (sic) Brown, Mark (20 November 2020). "Blue plaque for anti-slavery campaigner Ottobah Cugoano". The Guardian. Specia, Megan (20 November 2020)...
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time. President John Tyler's pursuit of Texas annexation divided both major parties. Annexation would geographically expand American slavery. It also risked...
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Jewish views on slavery are varied both religiously and historically. Judaism's ancient and medieval religious texts contain numerous laws governing the...
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Abraham Lincoln (section 1856 campaign)
to slavery, he re-entered politics. He soon became a leader of the new Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the 1858 Senate campaign debates...
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1790. He played a significant part in the early anti and pro-slavery debates in Bristol. John Harris was born around 1725. Little is known of his early...
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late 1836, Adams began a campaign to ridicule slave owners and the gag rule. He frequently attempted to present anti-slavery petitions, often in ways...
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moral opposition to slavery in public and private. "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," he stated. "I can not remember...
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of Cain and Ham, and shifted his views on slavery several times, eventually coming to take an anti-slavery stance later in his life. Smith taught that...
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Harper Twelvetrees (section Anti-slavery campaigner)
Twelvetrees (1823–1881) was an industrialist, philanthropist and anti-slavery campaigner. He was born on 17 December 1823 in Biggleswade, the third of ten...
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throughout his life, starting a Democrat. He became in turn an anti-Nebraska Democrat (an anti-slavery opponent of the Kansas-Nebraska Act), a Republican, a Liberal...
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accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US". The commission was part of Trump's response to the Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests, that followed...
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (redirect from Prohibition of slavery in the United States)
Soil Party candidate John C. Frémont threatened a third-party run opposing Lincoln, this time on a platform endorsing an anti-slavery amendment. The Republican...
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American Civil War (section Grant's Overland Campaign)
critical issue, both for the North, where anti-slavery sentiment had grown, and for the South, where the fear of slavery's abolition had grown. Another factor...
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