John F. (John Ferguson) Hume

John F. Hume, identified in library records as John F. (John Ferguson) Hume, was born in 1830. The clearest widely available record for him is his book The Abolitionists; Together with Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human Rights, 1830–1864, published in 1905 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

That book is the reason he is still remembered today. It combines a historical survey of the American abolitionist movement with recollections drawn from his own lifetime, giving the narrative a firsthand, reflective quality rather than the feel of a distant academic history.

Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year are hard to confirm from the sources found here, so it is best to treat him as a somewhat obscure but valuable witness-author: a man born in 1830 who later wrote about the long fight against slavery from the perspective of someone close to the era itself.