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Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney . According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney, Phillips was seen by many Blacks as "the one white American wholly color-blind and free from race prejudice". [1]
Apr 2, 2024 · Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died February 2, 1884, Boston) was an abolitionist crusader whose oratorical eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War.
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Wendell Phillips, by far the foremost orator of the abolitionist movement, was born on November 29, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts. His distinguished family had come from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. His father was a wealthy and influential lawyer, who, among other public offices, served as the first mayor of Boston in 1822.
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Oct 31, 2018 · Wendell Phillips was a Harvard educated lawyer and wealthy Bostonian who joined the abolitionist movement and became one of its most prominent advocates. Revered for his eloquence, Phillips spoke widely on the Lyceum circuit , and spread the abolitionist message in many communities during the 1840s and 1850s.
Wendell Phillips was a famous 19th century reform crusader, one of the most fervent abolitionists of his time. Phillips was born in Boston on November 29, 1811. He was a Mayflower descendent, born into a family of wealth and privilege. Wendell was the eighth child in a family of nine children.
May 18, 2018 · Phillips, Wendell (1811–84) US social reformer. He made a speech in Boston in favour of emancipation of slaves in 1836. He became a close associate of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and was president of the Antislavery Society (1865–70). He also advocated women's and workers' rights and temperance.
Wendell Phillips. 1811–84. Massachusetts. Abolitionist. The so-called "Golden Trumpet" of abolitionism, Wendell Phillips broke with his aristocratic New England family to fight slavery. The...
