Benjamin Lundy
Benjamin Lundy | |
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| Born | January 4, 1789 |
| Died | August 22, 1839 (aged 50) Lowell, Illinois, US |
| Occupations | Saddler, abolitionist newspaper publisher and speaker |
| Known for | Anti-slavery activities |
| Spouse | Esther Lewis |
| Children | Susan Maria Lundy Wierman (1815–1899), Charles Tallmadge Lundy (1821–1870), Benjamin Clarkson Lundy (1826–1861), Elizabeth (1818–1879), and Esther (1826–1917). |
| Parent(s) | Joseph and Elizabeth Shotwell Lundy |
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."