Benjamin Lundy
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1789 – 1839
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Who was Benjamin Lundy?
Benjamin Lundy was an American Quaker abolitionist from New Jersey who established several anti-slavery newspapers and worked for many others. He traveled widely seeking to limit the expansion of slavery, and in seeking to establish a colony to which freed slaves might be located, outside of the United States.
Lundy was also a leading voice in denouncing the Texas Revolution as a method to perpetuate slavery in Texas in defiance of the laws of Mexico banning slavery.
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- Born
- Jan 4, 1789
Sussex County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Aug 22, 1839
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on July 23, 2013
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