Cincinnati riots of 1836
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The Cincinnati riots of 1836 were caused by racial tensions at a time when African Americans, some of whom had escaped from slavery in the Southern United States, were competing with whites for jobs.
James G. Birney, abolitionist publisher whose press was twice destroyed during the riots.
Early portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853
Salmon Portland Chase, later to become Chief Justice of the United States
Jonathan Blanchard was an American pastor, educator, social reformer, and abolitionist. Born in Vermont, Blanchard attended Middlebury College before accepting a teaching position in New York. In 1834
Blanchard Hall, Wheaton College
Portrait of Blanchard in Christian Cynosure (1887)