1. John Scoble was a Congregational minister, British abolitionist and political figure in Canada West.
12 Facts About John Scoble
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John Scoble was part of the anti-slavery movement in England and was involved in the protests against the apprenticeship system which replaced slavery in the West Indies.
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John Scoble was one of the leaders of the anti-indenture movement and published several reports on the indentured workers conditions on plantation in the West Indies.
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John Scoble helped form the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and served as secretary from 1842 to 1852.
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John Scoble helped revitalize the anti-slavery movement in France, corresponding with people such as Francois-Andre Isambert who took an active role in trying to free the French slaves.
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John Scoble was not on good terms with the American anti-slavery advocate William Lloyd Garrison and his followers.
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John Scoble came to Upper Canada in 1852 to try to assist the British-American Institute of Science and Industry, a vocational school for black people, which was being managed by Josiah Henson, a former fugitive slave.
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In 1861, John Scoble resigned from the board of trustees of the institute.
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John Scoble was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in West Elgin in 1863 after the election of George Macbeth was declared invalid; he was re-elected in the general election that followed later that year.
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John Scoble supported a decentralized federation in Canada and representation by population.
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John Scoble retired from politics in 1867 after failing to attain reelection, and all but disappeared from public life.
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John Scoble died in Ontario at the age of 79 in November 1877.