Wendell Phillips: The Famed Orator of the Abolitionist Movement

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

His family wanted him committed to an insane asylum.

In 1835 Wendell Phillips, a wealthy Boston attorney, showed no sympathies for the abolitionist movement. But one day Phillips had an epiphany when he attended a rally of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the abolitionist movement was in its infancy and had very few supporters in the city of Boston. The principal speaker at the antislavery rally attended by Wendell Phillips in 1835 was William Lloyd Garrison. The crowd became enraged at Garrison's abolitionist commitments. Garrison was ...

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