Joshua Leavitt
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Rev. Joshua Leavitt was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who became a prominent writer, editor and publisher of abolitionist literature. He was also a spokesman for the Liberty Party and a prominent campaigner for cheap postage. Leavitt served as editor of The Emancipator, The New York Independent, The New York Evangelist, and other periodicals. He was the first secretary of the American Temperance Society and co-founder of the New York City Anti-Slavery Society.
Abolitionist editor and publisher Rev. Joshua Leavitt, photographed by Mathew B. Brady. Ca. 1860
Letter by Leavitt, Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton and other abolitionists to Abraham Lincoln requesting raising of black regiments in Union Army, August 1862
Heath, Massachusetts
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Heath is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 723 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Dell Dam in autumn
Burnt Hill Stone Circle, a Pre-Columbian site in Heath
Heath Union Church
Heath Memorial Hall, site of town meetings