Isaac Hopper
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1771 – 1852
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Who was Isaac Hopper?
Isaac Tatem Hopper was an American abolitionist who was active in Philadelphia in the anti-slavery movement and protecting fugitive slaves and free blacks from slave kidnappers. After moving to New York City in 1829 to run a Quaker bookstore, from 1841 he served as treasurer and book agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1845 he became active in prison reform and devoted the rest of his life to the Prison Association of New York.
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- Born
- Dec 3, 1771
Gloucester County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- May 7, 1852
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on July 23, 2013
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