biography
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| lived:
| (1789–1839)
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| biography:
| Abolitionist, born in Sussex Co, New Jersey, USA. Observing slavery as a saddler in Virginia (1808–12), he formed a pioneering anti-slavery group soon after settling in St Clair, OH (1815) and, risking harm, published several abolitionist papers, including The Philanthropist (with abolitionist Charles Osborne) and The Genius of Universal Emancipation (1821). He journeyed to such places as Haiti and Canada seeking colonies for freed slaves, and though more of a gradualist, was an early influence on William Lloyd Garrison, who co-edited the latter paper for a time. In 1836 Lundy started The National Enquirer and Constitutional Advocate of Universal Liberty, which opposed the annexation of Texas as a slaveholders' plot. After racist mobs destroyed all of his papers, he briefly re-established The Genius shortly before his death. |
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