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John F. (John Ferguson) Hume
b. 1830
An American editor, author, and former newspaper man, he wrote from long personal experience when he looked back on the antislavery movement. His best-known work, The Abolitionists, blends history with firsthand memory.
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The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864
by John F. (John Ferguson) Hume
About the author
Born on September 7, 1830, in Delaware County, New York, he was identified by the Library of Congress as John Ferguson Hume, an editor and author who died in Poughkeepsie, New York, on July 10, 1909.
His surviving public-domain work is closely tied to the history of abolition in the United States. The Abolitionists: Together with Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human Rights, 1830–1864, published in 1905, presents the movement not just as a historical subject but as something he had personally witnessed.
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