John Hooker (abolitionist)
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John Hooker was an American lawyer, judge, and abolitionist as well as a reformer for women's rights. He married Isabella Beecher Hooker in 1841 and lived in Farmington and Hartford, Connecticut.
Hartford, Connecticut home of John and Isabella Hooker. (August 2022)
James W. C. Pennington
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James William Charles Pennington was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. Pennington is the first Black student known to have attended Yale University.
John Hooker (abolitionist)
…of her activist career. An active abolitionist throughout his legal career, Hooker was instrumental in helping an African-American minister, Reverend James W.C. Pennington, gain his freedom from his Maryland slave owner for $150, when the owner discovered that Pennington was preaching at the Talcott Street Congregational…
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Portrait of James W.C. Pennington (1984)