Abolitionists of Campbell County

Abolitionist: a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially slavery, and works to abolish it.  Often abolitionists helped enslaved people obtain their freedom by moving them out of a slave state.

 

Abolition Party of Campbell County

Abolitionist Meetings in Newport

Bailey, William Shreve and Caroline

Conway, Peter and Mary

Root, Ira and Sarah

Shaler, Nathaniel and Ann

Whittemore, Dr. James Russell and Lucy

 

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