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Benjamine Lundy
published newspaper Genius of Universal Emancipation for 9 yrs
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William Lloyd Garrison
published the Liberator
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Samuel Cornish
editor of Freedom's Journal, proposed holding race conventions in 1827
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Phoenix Society
est library, had public lectures, and encouraged educations in NYC during the 1830s
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New York Committee of Vigilance
provided assistance to fugitive slave and free native blacks; est in 1835
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American League of Colored Laborers
encouraged Black craftsmen to establish their own businesses
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Scott vs. Sanford
case occuring after the death of Dred Scott's master (1843). After 3 yrs, Scott went to court for his freedom and was ultimately denied it by the Supreme court in 1857.
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Brown Fellowship Society
organization of wealthy free mulattos in Charleston founded in 1790.
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Friendly Moralist Society
organization of mulattoes in Charleston, 1860, not as prestigious as BFS
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John Chavis
black preacher who opposed emancipation
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Who were some free black slave owners?
- William Ellison (SC)-70
- Andrew Dunford (LA)- 25
- Joseph Hanscome (Charleston)- 16
- John Gardner (SC)- 62
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George Wright
free black slave owner who sold his children
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African Union Society
led Back to Africa movement, founded in 1780
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Paul Cuffe
who promoted emigration and Christianization of Africa, went to Sierra Leone with 38 Blacks in 1810
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David Walker
free man born in Wilmington, NC wrote The Appeal
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Lewis Woodson
Pittsburgh clergyman contributed to black newspaper the Colored American,
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