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Gerrit Smith, also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate fo
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Clasped Hands of Gerrit and Ann Smith, by Edmonia Lewis, 1872
Gerrit Smith house, Peterboro, New York, from an 1878 book. The house was destroyed by fire in 1936.
Smith made women's suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party platform on June 14–15, 1848.
The American Colonization Society, initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support
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…for Black students, along the model of nearby Oneida Institute. It had only one instructor, and it lasted only two years. Previously a supporter of the American Colonization Society, he became an abolitionist in 1835 after a mob in Utica, including New York congressman and future Attorney General Samuel Beardsley, broke up the…
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