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The city was known for its antislavery rhetoric and as the center of abolitionism, but Black residents endured “casual cruelty” in the work force and were condemned to lives of poverty without the chance for equal employment.

Although relatively few in number in America, the Quakers, or the Society of Friends, had been leaders in America’s early antislavery movement.

Arguing that slavery is unchristian and cruel, it becomes the most widely distributed antislavery work before the Revolution.

A proslavery mob attacked an abolitionist newspaper and other known antislavery activists.

An antislavery coalition forms the Free Soil party and nominates former president Martin Van Buren as its candidate.