Abolitionist Movement
in NH
in NH
True or False: everyone in NH was an abolitionist
False, there were many who were pro-slavery
City in NH that built ships and transported slaves in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Portsmouth
Famous orator, author, abolitionist, former slave, & women's rights activist; spoke multiple times in NH
Frederick Douglass
George Washington's slave, escaped to freedom in Portsmouth
Ona Marie Judge Staines
An anti-slavery newspaper led by William Lloyd Garrison, connected to and wrote about NH
The Liberator
Years slavery was legal in NH
1696-1857 or 1865
Former slave, activist, spoke "Ain't I a Women?", abolitionist, women's rights activist, met Abraham Lincoln
Sojourner Truth
Famous and popular writer and poet, used poetry to support abolition and educate people about slavery, traveled to South
John Greenleaf Whittier
A group of abolitionists in NH, worked to change laws and achieve rights for Black Americans
The NH Anti-Slavery Society
How many slaves were in NH in 1775?
656
Dedicated editor & owner of the Herald of Freedom, writer, part of Underground Railroad Network
Nathaniel Peabody Rodgers
Author of The Brotherhood of Thieves: A True Picture of the American Church and Clergy, member of the "New Hampshire radicals", "aggressive style" of speaking out
Stephen Symonds Foster
A petition to the NH government by African residents to end slavery, used phrases similar to Declaration of Independence to defend their freedom
The 1779 Petition for Liberation from Slavery
What was the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision in 1857?
It ruled that African-Americans could not be guaranteed citizenship and slavery could not be abolished
Dedicated abolitionist in Lyme as well as state, house was part of Underground Railroad
Samuel Balch
African-American abolitionist, writer, hydropathic practitioner, mentored Frederick Douglass & Sojourner Truth
David Ruggles
What percent of the population was part of the Abolitionist Society in the whole U.S.?
~ 1%
When was slavery officially abolished in NH?
1857 under an act, or 1865, under the 13th Amendment
Considered first African-American to publish a novel in America, wrote Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black
Harriet Wilson
America's first protest singers, composed and performed songs about abolition and social reform
Hutchinson Family Singers