Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
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Name (Latin)
Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839
Other forms of name
Citizen of the United States, 1789-1839
Columbus, 1789-1839
Philo Justitia, 1789-1839
Date of birth
1789-01-04
Date of death
1839-08-22
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Antislavery movements
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Newspaper editors
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass; accessed March 1, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Lundy, Benjamin; abolitionist, print journalist, newspaper editor / publisher; born 04 January 1789 in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States; founded The Genius of Universal Emancipation (1821), the first antislavery journal in US; was a member of the Quakers community; founded the Union Humane Society (1816), Saint Clairsville, Ohio; was contributing editor to the Philanthropist (1817), Mount Pleasant, Ohio; started Genius (1820); wrote the pamphlet The War in Texas (1836); made plans for revival of Genius and the antislavery movement (1838); died 22 August 1839 in Lowell, Illinois, United States)
- The origin and true causes of the Texas insurrection, 1836:p. 32 (Columbus)
- The war in Texas, 1836:t.p. (A citizen of the United States)
- His Circular. To the advocates of African emancipation, 1816:t.p. (Philo Justitia)
- Concise DAB(Lundy, Benjamin; b. 1789, Sussex County, N.J.; d. 1839, Illinois; abolitionist)
Wikipedia description:
Benjamin Lundy (January 4, 1789 – August 22, 1839) was an American Quaker abolitionist from New Jersey of the United States who established several anti-slavery newspapers and traveled widely. He lectured and published seeking to limit slavery's expansion and tried to find a place outside the United States to establish a colony in which freed slaves might relocate. As William Lloyd Garrison pointed out in a eulogy, Lundy was not the first American abolitionist, but "he was the first of our countrymen who devoted his life and all his power exclusively to the cause of the slaves."
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