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Gerrit SMITH, Congress, NY (1797-1874)

SMITH Gerrit , a Representative from New York; born in Utica, N.Y., March 6, 1797; moved to Peterboro in 1806; attended an academy in Clinton, N.Y.; was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N…

Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

(Encyclopedia) Frothingham, Octavius BrooksFrothingham, Octavius Brooksfrŏᵺˈĭnghəm [key], 1822–95, American clergyman and writer, b. Boston. While a Unitarian minister in Salem (1847–55) he came…

Henry Charles GOODWIN, Congress, NY (1824-1860)

GOODWIN Henry Charles , a Representative from New York; born in De Ruyter, Madison County, N.Y., June 25, 1824; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and…

Emigrant Aid Company

(Encyclopedia) Emigrant Aid Company, organization formed in 1854 to promote organized antislavery immigration to the Kansas territory from the Northeast. Eli Thayer conceived the plan as early as Feb…

Women's Suffrage: The Negro's Hour

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler That Adjective Male 1866Negro Suffrage as a Political NecessityThe Negro's HourThe elections of 1866 resulted in an overwhelming victory…

Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

by Frederick Douglass A very limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would require more space than can be reasonably…