William Dawes (abolitionist)

Dawes and John Keep toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SG-g_52iY6gC&dq=%22William+Dawes%22+slavery&pg=PA192 The culture of English antislavery, 1780-1860], David Turley, p192, 1991, {{ISBN|0-415-02008-5}}, accessed April 2009 They both attended the 1840 anti-slavery convention in London.[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit The Anti-Slavery Society Convention] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165117/http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit |date=2016-03-03 }}, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, accessed April 2009

John Keep and William Dawes both undertook a fund raising mission in England in 1839 and 1840 to raise funds from sympathetic abolitionists. Oberlin College was one of the few mult-racial and co-educational colleges in America at that time.[http://dcollections.oberlin.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=dawes&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all Oberlin Digital Collections], accessed April 2009

Both John Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers.[http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii13001.htm Bibliophiles and Collectors of African Americana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517145944/http://www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii13001.htm |date=2008-05-17 }}, Charles L. Bronson, accessed April 2009

A house occupied by someone of the same name was in Hudson, Ohio in the 1830s supporting the route for escaping slaves.[http://www.hudson.lib.oh.us/Hudson%20Website/Archives/Archives/Underground%20Railroad/ugrr.html Hudson Historic pictures], accessed April 2009

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