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Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Benjamin Lundy (1789–1839) American philanthropist, prominent in the antislavery conflict, born of Quaker parentage, at Hardwick, Warren county, NJ, on the 4th of January 1789. As a boy he worked on his father’s farm, attending school for only brief periods, and in 1808–1812 he lived at Wheeling, VA (now WV), where he served an apprenticeship to a saddler, and where—Wheeling being an important headquarters of the interstate slave trade—he first became deeply impressed with the iniquity of the institution of slavery, and determined to devote his life to the cause of abolition. In 1815, while living at Saint Clairsville, OH, he organized an antislavery association, known as the “Union Humane Society,” which within a few months had a membership of more than 500 men. For a short time he assisted Charles Osborne in editing the Philanthropist; in 1819 he went to St. Louis, MO, and there in 1819–1820 took an active part in the slavery controversy; and in 1821 he founded at Mount Pleasant, OH, an antislavery paper, the Genius of Universal Emancipation. This periodical, first a monthly and later a weekly, was published successively in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania, though it appeared irregularly, and at times, when Lundy was away on lecturing tours, was issued from any office that was accessible to him. From September 1829 until March 1830 Lundy was assisted in the editorship of the paper by William Lloyd Garrison. Besides travelling through many states of the United States to deliver antislavery lectures, Lundy visited Haiti twice—in 1825 and 1829, the Wilberforce colony of freedmen and refugee slaves in Canada in 1830–1831, and in 1832 and again in 1833 Texas, all these visits being made, in part, to find a suitable place outside the United States to which emancipated slaves might be sent. Between 1820 and 1830, according to a statement made by Lundy himself, he travelled “more than 5,000 m. on foot and 20,000 in other ways, visited nineteen states of the Union, and held more than 200 public meetings.” He was bitterly denounced by slaveholders and also by such non-slaveholders as disapproved of all antislavery agitation, and in January 1827 he was assaulted and seriously injured by a slave-trader, Austin Woolfolk, whom he had severely criticized in his paper. In 1836–1838 Lundy edited in Philadelphia a new antislavery weekly, The National Enquirer, which he had founded, and which under the editorship of John G. Whittier, Lundy’s successor, became The Pennsylvania Freeman. In 1838 Lundy removed to Lowell, La Salle county, IL, where he printed several copies of the Genius of Universal Emancipation. There, on the 22nd of August 1839, he died. Lundy is said to have been the first to deliver antislavery lectures in the United States.

1   See The Life, Travels and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy (Philadelphia, 1847), compiled (by Thomas Earle) “under the direction and on behalf of his children.”

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