William Dawes (abolitionist) explained

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

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=SG-g_52iY6gC&dq=%22William+Dawes%22+slavery&pg=PA192 The culture of English antislavery, 1780-1860
  2. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit The Anti-Slavery Society Convention
  3. http://dcollections.oberlin.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=dawes&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all Oberlin Digital Collections
  4. http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii13001.htm Bibliophiles and Collectors of African Americana
  5. http://www.hudson.lib.oh.us/Hudson%20Website/Archives/Archives/Underground%20Railroad/ugrr.html Hudson Historic pictures