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Abolitionism (or the abolitionist movement) is the movement to end slavery. This term can be used formally or informally. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism is a historical movement in effort to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. King Charles I of Spain, usually known as Emperor Charles V, was following the example of Louis X of France who abolished slaver...
The Fisk family of Massachusetts traces it's lineage through Nathan Fiske, the immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1643, who became a Watertown, Massachusetts planter. Before that, the family of Fiske is traced to Symond Fiske, lord of the manor of Standhough Laxfield England to Daniel Fiske in 1208.Fiske and Fisk family: being the record of the descendants of Symond Fiske, lord of ...
The Free Soil Party was founded August 9-10, 1848, in Buffalo, New York. It included members of the “Conscience Whigs” Party, Democrats and members of the Liberty Party , which preceded it. The motto was, “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men.” It was a third party, whose main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the Western territories acquired after the war with Mexic...
American Colonization Society =The American Colonization Society (ACS) (in full, The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America), founded in 1816, was the primary vehicle to support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa. It helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821–22 as a place for freedmen. Among its founders were Charle...
One month and one day following the end of the Revolutionary war securing our freedoms from Tyrany, some of our ancestors turned their attention to the next order of business: Securing the freedoms of other Americans.This project is to identify those who signed this document: To the United States in Congress Assembled===The Address of the People Called Quakers==Being through the favour of D...
from North Carolina Manumission Society On July 19, 1816, twenty-three delegates from Quaker meetings at Centre, Carraway, Deep River, and New Garden organized the North Carolina Manumission Society at Centre Friends Meeting House in Guilford County. The delegates represented 147 members in the local societies. The antislavery organization alternated between meeting at Centre and Deep River unt...