Frederick William Chesson (1833 – 29 April 1888) was an English journalist and prominent anti-slavery campaigner. He was active in the London

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James Heartfield, ''The Aborigines' Protection Society,'' London, Hurst, 2011 and Emancipation Committee, and met Harriet Jacobs when she was in England in 1858; and was a vocal supporter of the Union side during the American Civil War. In 1855 he married Amelia Thompson, daughter of activist George Thompson (1804–1878). He was also a leading supporter of

Sir Charles Dilke Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet, PC (4 September 1843 – 26 January 1911) was an English Liberal and Radical politician. A republican in the early 1870s, he later became a leader in the radical challenge to Whig control of the Liber ...

, his Member of Parliament, during Dilke's scandalous divorce case. In 1859, Chesson and Thompson founded the

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which strongly supported the Unionist side in the American Civil War. He wrote on Richard Cobden, for his major biography.

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Thompson Chesson Scrapbooks
From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress 1833 births 1888 deaths British male journalists English abolitionists 19th-century British journalists 19th-century British male writers {{UK-journalist-stub