The Attendance

Forty delegates attended the 1830 convention, but only seventeen of them attended any subsequent conventions. The majority of the 1830 convention attendees, then, were made up of individuals who, for various reasons, were not actively involved in what would eventually become the Colored Conventions movement. For example, Richard Allen, the president of this 1830 convention, did not attend future conventions because he passed away only a few months after this first meeting. Hezekiah Grice, another key figure in the first convention, also did not attend future conventions and eventually emigrated to Haiti.

This visualization below represents the network of 1830 delegate attendance to future conventions. Red dots represent attendees; blue dots represent conventions; and purple lines connecting the dots represent the fact that the delegate attended the convention with which he is connected.

Delegates at the 1830 and Related Conventions

Hover over over each dot to find out which conventions delegates attended.

Credits

Visualization by Jim Casey.

Reference