[ October 16, 2009 to February 14, 2010. ] The Akron Art Museum is presenting selections from Jacob Lawrence’s celebrated screen prints in “The Legend of John Brown” until February 14, 2010.

Location: Akron Art Museum, One South High, Akron, OH 44308

This fall marks the 150th anniversaries of John Brown’s anti-slavery raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and his December 2, 1859 execution. To commemorate this [...]

The Compromise of 1850 was one of several attempts by both the North and the South to settle differences over slavery’s expansion.
As a result of the Mexican War, the United States acquired most of the present-day American Southwest. The acquisition of this land immediately increased tensions between the North and the South, as the two [...]

The Philanthropist was an anti-slavery newspaper first published in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, in September 1817. Its first editor was Charles Osborn. He was a member of the Society of Friends who were often called “Quakers.” Osborn called for an immediate end to slavery. He hoped his paper would educate white Northerners about slavery’s injustice.
The paper [...]

For twenty years Levi and Catharine Coffin’s home in Newport, Indiana had been a stop for hundreds of slaves on the Underground Railroad. In 1847 the Coffin’s moved to Cincinnati. Even though the Coffin’s expected to be through with the Underground Railroad, the family quickly became involved with the abolition movement in Cincinnati. The family [...]

In 1857, the Battle of Lumbarton occurred between federal marshals, who were enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and anti-slavery Ohioans.
Addison White, an escaped slave, set the chain of events in motion that culminated in the Battle of Lumbarton. In 1856, White ran away from Kentucky to Ohio along the Underground Railroad. He eventually [...]