Wendell Phillips was an American abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.
A daguerreotype by Mathew Brady of Wendell Phillips in his forties
Wendell Phillips, abolitionist, [ca. 1859–1870]. Carte de Visite Collection, Boston Public Library.
Portrait of Phillips, c. 1863–64; photo by Case & Getchell
Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and George Thompson, 1851.
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith
Wendell Phillips
…Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave, was being imprisoned; however, it was believed that he was not involved in the celebrated attempt to rescue Burns. After John Brown was executed in December 1859, Phillips attended and spoke at his funeral, at the John Brown Farm in remote North Elba, New York. He met Mary Brown and…
The house in which Brown was born, in Torrington, Connecticut, was photographed in 1896 and destroyed by fire in 1918.
John Brown's Tannery, in 1885
Mary Ann Brown (née Day), wife of John Brown, married in 1833, with Annie (left) and Sarah (right) in 1851
Wood engraving of the pro-slavery mob setting fire to Gilman & Godfrey's warehouse, where Elijah Parish Lovejoy hid his printing press