This is the grave of Moses Brown. Born in 1738 in Providence, Rhode Island, Brown grew up in the Rhode Island merchant elite. That meant the slave trade. It also meant whaling, but it was the slave trade where the money was. They were all-in....
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This is the grave of Ovid Butler. Born in 1801 in Augusta, New York, Butler grew up around there until he was sixteen, when the family moved west to the.
This is the grave of Levi Coffin. Born in 1798 in Guilford County, North Carolina, Coffin grew up on the farms of that area. His family was Quaker and that.
This is the grave of Charles Turner Torrey. Born in 1813 in Scituate, Massachusetts, Torrey was orphaned at age 4 when both his parents and his sister died of tuberculosis. His grandparents raised him. His grandfather had been in Congress for a short time and...
This is the grave of Thomas Barber. Born in 1814 in Pennsylvania, Barber later moved to Indiana, where he worked in the wool clothing business. As was common for lots.
This is the grave of William Wells Brown. Brown was born into slavery in approximately 1814 to a planter in Kentucky. His mother was a slave woman who had seven.
This is the grave of Lydia Maria Child. Lydia Maria Francis was born in 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts. Going by her middle name her whole life and pronouncing it "Mariah," she grew up in a ministerial family. Her older brother went to Harvard and became...
This is the grave of Gerrit Smith. Born in 1797 in Utica, New York, he grew up wealthy. His father had married into the New York Livingston elite and made.
This is the grave of William Kelley. Born in 1814 in Philadelphia to a Quaker family, Kelley's father died when William was 2. That led to some very hard times.
This is the grave of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 in Cambridge to an old Puritan family, Higginson started at Harvard at age 13 and graduated in 1841. He taught for a bit and then went to Harvard Divinity School. But he was more...
This is the grave of Theodore Sedgwick. Born in 1746 to one of Massachusetts' oldest families, Sedgwick went to Yale but didn't graduate. Instead, he went to Great Barrington where.
This is the grave of William Lloyd Garrison. Born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts to dirt poor parents. His father, a sailor unemployed due to the Embargo Act of 1807,.