The Oneida Institute was a short-lived Presbyterian school in Whitesboro, New York, United States, that was a national leader in the emerging abolitionist movement. Existing from 1827 to 1843, the sch

Lewis Tappan was an American abolitionist who in 1841 helped to secure freedom for the enslaved Africans aboard the Amistad. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, into a Calvinist household.