biography
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| lived:
| (1807–59)
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| biography:
| Physician, journalist, and abolitionist, born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA. In his early years he worked as a physician, but his true calling was abolitionism. He and James G Birney edited the Cincinnati Philanthropist (1836), the first anti-slavery organ in the West, and he later founded the daily Herald (1843). He moved to Washington, DC, to serve as editor-in-chief of the National Era (1847–59), the periodical of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Tolerant and cool-headed, he stood up to mobs to defend his abolitionist publications, exerting a wide moral and political influence for the anti-slavery movement. |
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