Saturday, 27 July 2019

871) Benjamin Lundy

Benjamin Lundy (1789 – 1839). 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 also tried to find a place outside the United States to establish a colony where freed slaves might relocate.

- "One who met him speaks of his hair and beard as red."  https://archive.org/…/memor…/memorialtobenjam00lund_djvu.txt

- "In March 1828, Garrison met the thin, stoop-shouldered, red-haired Quaker saddle-maker Benjamin Lundy. http://libertarianstvo.org/…/personalities/item/62-william-…



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