Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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... SECRET SIX AND JOHN BROWN In Boston the Kansas Aid Committee consisted of six prominent abolitionists , several of whom were independently wealthy . The six were George Luther Stearns , a prominent pipe manufacturer ; Dr. Samuel Gridley ...
... Secret Six , minus Smith , met with Brown on March 5 , 1858 in the American House hotel in Boston . They agreed to the initial financing for the plan . In early June 1858 , Brown was given $ 500 by the Secret Six in Boston and told to ...
... Secret Six were indicted by Virginia they should be tried in Massachusetts- -as the crime occurred there . None of the Secret Six was ever indicted , arrested , or tried for participation in the conspiracy . 49 Of the Six , Smith was ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |