biography
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| (1811–84)
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| biography:
| Orator and reformer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A graduate of Harvard College (1831) and Law School (1834), he soon abandoned his legal practice. Influenced by his abolitionist wife Ann Terry Greene and his Calvinist upbringing, he dedicated himself to lecture on behalf of abolition, even at the expense of dissolving the Union. In many respects the most radical of the abolitionists, he also espoused such causes as women's rights and humane treatment of the mentally ill, earning a national reputation on the lecture circuit. After the Civil War, unlike many abolitionists, he turned to seeking social justice for blacks, succeeding William Lloyd Garrison as president of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1865). He grew concerned with the welfare of all workers and became increasingly radical, upholding violence as a labour tactic and denouncing corporate wealth and the wage and profit system. |
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