Charles Volney Dyer came to Chicago in 1835 as physician to the garrison at Fort Dearborn. Outraged at the assassination of abolitionist editor; Elijah Lovejoy; in Alton; Illinois; he rallied Chicgoans to form the Chicago Chapter of the Anti-Slavery Society. With them; he operated the Illinois Station of the Underground Railroad; freeing over 1000 slaves. Tracing Dyer's activities from 1835-1865; Campbell sweeps in the many players and steps in the fight against slavery. Dyer established newspapers; including "National Era" which first published "Uncle Tom's Cabin;" and "Western Citizen" which became the "FreeWest" and later the "Chicago Tribune." He founded anti-slavery political parties--the Liberty Party; the Free Soil Party and the Illinois Republican Party; which hosted the first Republican Convention;at which Dyer helped secure the nomination for Lincoln in 1860 in Chicago. Lincoln is rightfully immortalized as the Great Emancipator and this book clearly demonstrates that Chicago abolitionists played a significant role in pushing slavery down the road to its ultimate extinction.
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