William Dawes (abolitionist)

William Dawes was a 19th century abolitionist who worked at Oberlin College.

For other people named William Dawes, see William Dawes (disambiguation).
William Dawes at the 1840 convention
A note in William Dawes' hand itemising expenses

Life

Dawes and John Keep toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio.[1] They both attended the 1840 anti-slavery convention in London.[2]

John Keep and William Dawes both undertook a fund raising mission in England in 1839 and 1840 to raise funds from sympathetic abolitionists. Oberlin College was one of the few mult-racial and co-educational colleges in America at that time.[3]

Both John Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers.[4]

A house occupied by someone of the same name was in Hudson, Ohio in the 1830s supporting the route for escaping slaves.[5]

References
  1. The culture of English antislavery, 1780-1860, David Turley, p192, 1991, ISBN 0-415-02008-5, accessed April 2009
  2. The Anti-Slavery Society Convention Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, accessed April 2009
  3. Oberlin Digital Collections, accessed April 2009
  4. Bibliophiles and Collectors of African Americana, Charles L. Bronson, accessed April 2009
  5. Hudson Historic pictures, accessed April 2009


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