*Edward Walker’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1830. He was a Black artisan and attorney. Edward Garrison Walker was the son of Eliza and David Walker, an abolitionist who wrote an appeal in 1829 calling for the end of slavery. Born in Edgefield, SC, he received training in working with leather as a young man. He […]
learn more*On this date in 1830, the first National Negro Convention met in Philadelphia, PA. This group gathered for the express purpose of abolishing slavery and improving the status of African Americans.
learn more*Mary Dickerson was born on this date in 1830. She was a Black businesswoman and clubwoman. Mary H. Dickerson was born in Haddam, Connecticut, and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. Around 1865, Dickerson and her husband, Silas, moved to Newport, Rhode Island. In the early 1870s, she opened a dressmaking shop on Bellevue Avenue. […]
learn more*It was on the first day of January 1831 in Boston that William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator newspaper, the official periodical of the antislavery movement.
learn more*Eliza Ann Gardner was born on this date in 1831. She was a Black abolitionist, religious leader, and women’s movement leader. Eliza Ann Gardner was born to James and Eliza Gardner in New York City. As a child, she moved with her family to Boston, where her father had a successful career as a shipping contractor. […]
learn more*Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet was born on this date in 1831. She was a Black educator and suffragist. Sarah J. Smith was born on the Shinnecock Reservation of Long Island. She was the daughter of Sylvanus and Anne Smith, both of African, Native American, and European heritage. She was the oldest of 11 children; her […]
learn more*The Female Literary Association (FLA) was formed on this date in 1831. It was a formal space where Black women exchanged knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and beliefs and prepared for a public role in abolition and community circles. This association was started in Philadelphia, PA., by Sarah Mapps Douglas, who pushed back against political, racial, or social contexts; […]
learn more*Joanna Moore was born on this date in 1832. She was a white-American Baptist missionary. Born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, Joanna Patterson Moore went to Island Number Ten in the Mississippi River in November 1863 to work with around 1,000 Black women and children who had gone there seeking protection from the Union Army during the American Civil War. She […]
learn more*Erastus Cravath was born on this date in 1833. He was a White American abolitionist, educator, chaplin and administrator.
learn more*The birth of William Henry Johnson in 1833 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black Abolitionist, politician and crusader for the rights of Blacks.
learn more*Anthony Burns was born on this date in 1834. He was a Black Preacher and fugitive slave. Anthony Burns was born enslaved in Stafford County, Virginia. His mother, also enslaved by John Suttle, died shortly after his birth. His mother was a cook for the Suttle family and had 13 children, with him as her […]
learn more*John Anthony Copeland was born on this date in 1834. He was a free Black carpenter and abolitionist. John Anthony Copeland Jr. was born in Raleigh, North Carolina; his parents were John Anthony Copeland, a slave, and Delilah Evans, born a free Black. Copeland Sr. was emancipated as a boy in about 1815. As a […]
learn more*Isaac Myers was born on this date in 1835. He was a pioneering Black trade unionist, a cooperative organizer, and a caulker. Myers was born free in Baltimore, though Maryland was a slave state. Since the state of Maryland did not offer public education for Black youth, Myers had to acquire his early education from […]
learn more*Hannibal C. Carter’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1835. He was a Black soldier, abolitionist, and politician. Carter was born in New Albany, Indiana, then moved to Toronto, Canada, for his early childhood. He and his brother were sons of George Washington Carter. Although the exact date is unclear, sometime in the […]
learn more*Mary Patterson Leary Langston’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1835. She was a Black educator and abolitionist. Born Mary Sampson Patterson in North Carolina, she was the daughter of a formerly enslaved man who highly valued education; for this reason, he brought his family to Oberlin, Ohio, to secure a college education […]
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