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    Wendell Phillips

    American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer

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  1. Jul 9, 2023 · This biographical video will explore the life and legacy of Wendell Phillips, a prominent 19th century American abolitionist and social reformer. #history ...

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  2. Apr 2, 2024 · February 2, 1884, Boston (aged 72) 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. After opening a law office in Boston, Phillips, a wealthy ...

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  4. Jun 24, 2011 · Abolitionist Wendell Phillips, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1833, was a nationally know celebrity during his lifetime. On the bicentennial of his birth, a symposium held at HLS June 2-4, cosponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, focused on the life and legacy of the social reformer, and the questions they raise for those working for social justice ...

  5. 1811–84. Massachusetts. Abolitionist. The so-called "Golden Trumpet" of abolitionism, Wendell Phillips broke with his aristocratic New England family to fight slavery. The son of Boston's first ...

  6. By Janice Clemons-Harley, Class of June 1956. 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.

  7. Wendell Phillips. 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 ...

  8. Oct 31, 2018 · Wendell Phillips was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1811. His father had been a judge and the mayor of Boston. His family's roots in Massachusetts went back to the landing of Puritan minister George Phillips, who arrived aboard the Arbella with Gov. John Winthrop in 1630. Phillips received the education befitting a Boston ...

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