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 would define his life and his politics. North Carolina was a popular place for Quakers...
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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..
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 children by seven different men, largely probably because of sexual assault or other unequal sexual...
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,".
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 for the family. His mother opened a boarding house to keep the family going, which...
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.
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, the single worst foreign policy decision in American history, deserted the family in 1808. Garrison...
This is the grave of Charles Sumner. Born in Boston in 1811, Sumner's family were strong abolitionists and of course their son picked this up with passion. He graduated from.
This is the grave of Lysander Spooner. Born in 1808 in Athol, Masschusetts, Spooner never went to college but nonetheless studied with some of his state's top lawyers and became.