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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anti-slavery Society , American, (search)
Anti-slavery Society, American,
An organization founded in Philadelphia.
Pa., in 1833, by delegates from several State and city societies in the Northern and Eastern States, the first local one having been established in Boston, Jan. 16, 1832, under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison.
The presidents of the national society were Arthur Tappan, Lindley Coates, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, and in its membership were the leading abolitionists of the day. The members, individually, were subjected for many years to mob violence, and the feeling in the South against the society was exceedingly bitter.
The members heroically kept together, in spite of persecution and personal assault, till April 9, 1870, when, on the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the national Constitution, the main society was disbanded.
See Colonization Society, American; Liberia.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baylor , George , 1752 -1784 (search)
Baylor, George, 1752-1784
Military officer; born in Newmarket, Va., Jan. 12, 1752.
Soon after Washington's arrival at Cambridge in 1778, he appointed (Aug. 15) young Baylor as his aide.
He was a participant in the battle at Trenton, and carried the news of the victory to Congress, when that body presented him with a horse caparisoned for service, and made him colonel of dragoons (Jan. 8, 1777). On the night of Sept. 27, 1778, his troop of horse, lying in barns, unarmed, near old Tappan, were surprised at midnight by the British while asleep.
The British had silently cut off a sergeant's patrol and fell suddenly upon the sleeping troopers.
The latter, without arms and powerless, asked for quarter.
General Grey had given special orders not to grant quarter, and out of 104 prisoners sixty-seven were killed or wounded.
Some of the men were bayoneted in cold blood.
Baylor was wounded and made prisoner.
He died in Bridgetown, Barbadoes.
in March, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garrison , William Lloyd 1804 -1879 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tappan , Arthur 1786 -1865 (search)
Tappan, Arthur 1786-1865
Philanthropist; born in Northampton, Mass., May 22, 1786; received a common school education; established himself in business in Portland, Me, and subsequently in Montreal, Canada, where he remained until the beginning of the War of 1812.
He was the founder of Oberlin College, and erected Tappan Hall there; endowed Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati; established a professorship at Auburn Theological Seminary; was one of the founders of the American Tract Society; and with his brother established the New York Journal of commerce in 1828 and The Emancipator in 1833.
He was the first president of the American Anti-slavery Society, to which he contributed $1,000 a month for several years, but withdrew in 1840 on account of the aggressive spirit manifested by many members towards the churches and the Union; and during his later years was connected with a mercantile agency which his brother Lewis established.
He died in New Haven, Conn., July 23, 1865.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tappan , Lewis 1788 -1873 (search)
Tappan, Lewis 1788-1873
Merchant; brother of Arthur Tappan; born in Northampton, Mass., May 23, 1788; received a common school education; established himself in business with his brother in 1814.
Later he became interested in calico-print works and the manufacture of cotton; removed to New York in 1827, and with his brother engaged in the importing trade.
In 1833 he became deeply interested in the anti-slavery movement, in consequence of which he and his brother at various times suffered personal violence.
He was involved in the crisis of 1837, and soon after withdrew from the firm and established the first mercantile agency in the country.
He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 21, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier , John Greenleaf 1807 -1892 (search)