Samuel Lucas
Deceased Person
1811 – 1865
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Who was Samuel Lucas?
Samuel Lucas was a British Journalist and abolitionist. He was the editor of the Morning Star in London, the only national newspaper in Britain to support the Unionist cause in the American Civil War. He died knowing that legal slavery in America had ended. In 2010 a U.S. Embassy attache visited the tomb of Samuel Lucas. Lucas lived to hear the "tidings of the destruction of the slave power in the United States"
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- Born
- 1811
Wandsworth - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Apr 16, 1865
London
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on July 23, 2013
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