Dawes and
John Keep toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for
Oberlin College in Ohio. They both attended the
1840 anti-slavery convention in London. John Keep and William Dawes both undertook a fund raising mission in England in 1839 and 1840 to raise funds from sympathetic abolitionists. Oberlin College was one of the few mult-racial and co-educational colleges in America at that time. Both John Keep and Dawes are credited with helping to start the collection of African Americana at Oberlin College which inspired other writers. A house occupied by someone of the same name was in
Hudson, Ohio in the 1830s supporting the route for escaping slaves. ==References==