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TIL about Dr. Mary Walker, an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. She is the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. She worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines during the civil war.

by whatilearned November 11, 2022, 7:18 pm

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TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown. Booth stood near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown’s fate, although he admired the condemned man’s bravery in facing death stoically.

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 6:49 pm

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TIL: As far back as 1872, despite practically no women being allowed to vote, Victoria Woodhull of the Equal Rights Party became the first woman nominated for a US Presidential election. Frederick Douglass, a black abolitionist, was even chosen as her running mate

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 12:52 pm

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TIL members of Congress in the 19th century brought pistols, canes, and Bowie knives to work. 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks (D-South Carolina), stormed into the Senate and nearly beat to death abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner (R-Mass.). Following the caning incident, Sumner spent three years recuperatin

by whatilearned March 26, 2022, 8:10 pm

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TIL: Pumpkin pie became a popular dish during Civil War-era celebrations of Thanksgiving because pumpkins were grown on small farms, not plantations, making the pie a symbol of abolitionist virtue.

by whatilearned November 25, 2021, 5:59 am

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TIL – Laura Spelman, wife of John Rockefeller and an abolitionist, made sure the “Green Book” was available at all Esso Standard Oil gas stations. This book listed all the safe places for Blacks to eat and stay since the 1930’s.

by whatilearned November 17, 2021, 4:57 pm

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TIL The Sharps Rifle was nicknamed “Beecher’s Bible” after abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher: “You might just as well…read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp’s rifle.”

by whatilearned October 30, 2021, 11:52 pm

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TIL Dred Scott, following the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled he was neither free nor a citizen, was nonetheless freed along with his family by an abolitionist relative of his original owners less than three months later. He lived free less than two years before he died of tuberculosis.

by whatilearned October 12, 2021, 9:08 pm

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TIL that Benjamin Lay, an ardent abolitionist, once kidnapped the child of slaveholders temporarily to show them how Africans felt when their relatives were sold overseas.

by whatilearned September 1, 2021, 4:37 pm

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TIL the guy on the cover of The Best of Kansas is the abolitionist John Brown

by whatilearned August 16, 2021, 8:00 am

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TIL of Gouveneur Morris, a US founding father and abolitionist, who died after causing himself internal injuries and an infection while using a piece of whalebone as a catheter to attempt clearing a blockage in his urinary tract.

by whatilearned August 9, 2021, 3:48 pm

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TIL that the father of John Brown (famous abolitionist) employed and housed the father of Ulysses S Grant (General of the Union Army during the Civil War)

by whatilearned June 19, 2021, 4:09 am

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