LUNDY, BENJAMIN
\lˈʌndi], \lˈʌndi], \l_ˈʌ_n_d_i]\
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(1789-1839), originated an anti-slavery association In Ohio called the "Union Humane Society" in 1815. He contributed anti slavery articles to periodicals, and from 1812 to 1836 edited The Genius of Emancipation, published at Baltimore after 1824. He advocated negro colonization. He was one of the first to deliver anti-slavery lectures and the first to found societies for the encouragement of free labor. Garrison was an assistant to him at first. Lundy was a Quaker.
By John Franklin Jameson
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