Oren Burbank Cheney was an American politician, minister, and statesman who was a key figure in the abolitionist movement in the United States during the later 19th century. Along with textile tycoon Benjamin Bates, he founded Bates College as the first coeducational college in New England which is widely considered his magnum opus. Cheney is one of the most extensively covered subjects of Neoabolitionism, for his public denouncement of slavery, involuntary servitude, and advocation for fair and equal representation, egalitarianism, and personal sovereignty.
Oren Burbank Cheney
Oren Cheney's father, Moses Cheney, a prominent minister and abolitionist
Dartmouth during the 1800s
Free Soil Party poster
Benjamin Edward Bates IV was an American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist. He was the wealthiest person in Maine from 1850 to 1878.
Benjamin Bates IV
Workers in industrial Lewiston, in the late 19th century
Tompkins square riot in the 1870s from lack of credit stability of Manhattan banks
Alexander De Witt advised Bates on development strategy in Lewiston.