page_title: William Dawes (abolitionist)
hierarchical_section_title: William Dawes (abolitionist)
caption_attribution_description: English: William Dawes portrait from his and John Keeps visit to the UK on behalf of w:Oberlin College in Ohio. Picture at 1840 anti slavery conference
context_page_description: William Dawes was an abolitionist.
  William Dawes and John Keep toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio. They both attended the 1840 anti-slavery convention in London.
  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.
  Both John Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers.
  A house occupied by someone of the same name was in Hudson, Ohio in the 1830s supporting the route for escaping slaves.
context_section_description: William Dawes was an abolitionist.
  William Dawes and John Keep toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio. They both attended the 1840 anti-slavery convention in London.
  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.
  Both John Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers.
  A house occupied by someone of the same name was in Hudson, Ohio in the 1830s supporting the route for escaping slaves.
caption: William Dawes at the 1840 convention
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