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- Abolitionism, in this case, allowed Benjamin Roberts to embrace the family legacy of activism established by his formidable grandfather, James Easton, during and immediately after the American Revolution. Through and for abolitionism, Roberts internalized powerful historical continuities.
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Abolitionism, in this case, allowed Benjamin Roberts to embrace the family legacy of activism established by his formidable grandfather, James Easton, during and immediately after the American Revolution. Through and for abolitionism, Roberts internalized powerful historical continuities.
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Benjamin Franklin Roberts (September 4, 1815 – September 6, 1881) was an African-American printer, writer, activist and abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts, whose famous case on behalf of his daughter, Sarah Roberts v. Boston, resulted in a verdict that laid the foundation for "separate but equal", but was also cited in the landmark 1954 ...
Benjamin Roberts, though angry and disappointed, did not give up. At least one good thing came out of his lawsuit: a militant new partnership between black and white abolitionists in Boston.
On behalf of his daughter Sarah, in the 1840s Benjamin Roberts and a group parents challeneged segregation in Boston. They worked with Robert Morris, one of the first African-American attorneys in the U.S., and Charles Sumner.
He felt integration and equal education would help combat the belief that blacks did not belong in America. Roberts married Adeline Fowler in 1838. In April of that year, he established an abolitionist publication that would better represent black writers and their views called Anti-Slavery Herald.
By that time Thomas Paine and Benjamin Rush, both major American Revolutionaries, had weighed in with influential pamphlets linking the need for the abolition of slavery to the larger cause of American independence and the achievement of republican-oriented natural rights.
In 1847, local printer Benjamin Roberts applied to the Boston Primary School Committee for his daughter, five year-old Sarah Roberts, to attend a school located close to their house on Andover Street, a school that educated White children.
