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Topic: Charles Lenox Remond


  
  Sarah Parker Remond
Sarah Parker Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on June 6, 1826, one of eight children of John and Nancy Lenox Remond.
Charles Lenox Remond, her older brother, was a well-known antislavery lecturer in the United States and Great Britain.
Remond was forcibly ejected from the theater and pushed down the stairs, from which she suffered an injury.
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 AAP Biography: Remond, C.L.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A barber born to free parents in Salem, Massachusetts, Charles Lenox Remond (1810-73) helped found the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.
Their close association ended in 1852 when Remond denounced Douglass for abandoning the Garrisonian interpretation of the U.S. Constitution as a proslavery instrument.
Pease and Pease, They Who Would Be Free, 46; Les Wallace, "Charles Lenox Remond: The Lost Prince of Abolitionism," NHB, 40:696-701 (May-June 1977); Donald M. Jacobs, "A History of the Boston Negro from the Revolution to the Civil War" (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1968), 117; NCAB, 2:303; DAB, 15:499-500.
americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu /remond.htm   (195 words)

  
 The Black Abolitionist Papers: Vol. I: The British Isles, 1830-1865, Edited by C. Peter Ripley. Introduction.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Remond formed local groups in Ireland and in the north of England that concentrated on collecting goods for the American Anti-Slavery Society's bazaar—an annual fair that was a major source of revenue for the society.[7] He was credited with doing more to advance antislavery in Ireland than any previous lecturer.
Remond's success in Ireland early in the decade demonstrated the specific and practical results that a professional fl abolitionist might generate; his effort on behalf of the bazaar was a financial and organizational windfall for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Remond buttressed the ideas put in place by Paul's visit that fl Americans had real authority in the British Isles, that British audiences were eager to hear from fl abolitionists on matters of slavery and racial prejudice, and that professional fl abolitionists could produce results as few others could, if left to their own efforts.
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 Mass Moments: Sarah Remond Ejected from Boston Theater
Sarah's brother Charles was the first fl man to testify before the Massachusetts House when he protested being forced to sit in segregated railway cars, another example of the racism Massachusetts fls faced in their home state.
Her older brother Charles Lenox Remond was the American Anti-Slavery Society's first fl lecturer and the nation's leading fl abolitionist until Frederick Douglass appeared on the scene.
Sarah Parker Remond proved to be such a good speaker and fundraiser that abolitionists in Great Britain invited her to help promote the cause on their side of the Atlantic, as her brother had done ten years before.
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 Charles Lenox Remond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1878), born in Salem, Massachusetts, was the son of free fls, John and Nancy Remond.
The young Remond had a reputation as an eloquent lecturer and is reported to have been the first fl public speaker on abolition (Merrill V 273).
Remond and Douglass joined in urging the Negro National Convention to call fls to leave en masse any church that discriminated against them in seating or at the communion table.
bchistory.org /beavercounty/booklengthdocuments/AMilobook/21Remond.html   (907 words)

  
 The Honored Women
Sarah Parker Remond was born in 1826 in Salem.
Her father was a life member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society; and her older brother Charles Lenox Remond was the American Anti-Slavery Society's first fl lecturer and the nation's leading fl abolitionist until Frederick Douglass appeared on the scene in 1842.
Sarah Parker Remond proved to be such a good speaker, and such a good fundraiser, that she was invited to take the anti-slavery message to Great Britain, something her brother had done ten years before.
www.mfh.org /specialprojects/shwlp/site/honorees/remond.html   (958 words)

  
 CHAPTER XI. Literary and Professional Colored Men and Women
Remond is a native of the town he resides in, and at an early age, evinced more than ordinary talents.
Remond appeared at one time before the legislature of Massachusetts, in behalf of the rights of the people above named, where with peals of startling eloquence, he moved that great body of intelligent New Englanders, to a respectful consideration of his subject; which eventually resulted as stated.
Remond." Charles Lenox Remond is the soul of an honorable gentleman.
www.libraries.wvu.edu /delany/writers.htm   (5127 words)

  
 Salem in History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Remond successfully brought her case to court and was late granted a small award.
Remond toured America and Europe as a well-received speaker for the abolitionist cause, and in 1871, received a medical diploma in Florence where she practiced as a physician.
Charles Edward Stowe published the first official biography of his advocate mother who is best known for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).
www.saleminhistory.org /SocialChangesSocialReform/abolitionism/primarysources.htm   (3753 words)

  
 Halliday's Holidays
1812 Novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.
1775 Essayist Charles Lamb was born in London.
1809 Charles Darwin, biological evolution theorist, was born in Shrewsbury, England.
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 The Middle Passage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
1810, Charles Lenox Remond, (1810-1873) an African American male and one of the Eight children, he was the oldest son of a successful CuraƧaoan merchant and his mother living in Salem, Massachusetts.
Remond at the age of Thirty began lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
1840, Charles Lenox Remond, an African American male, at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Conference in London, to which he was forced to travel second class because he was Black, he declined his seat on the main floor when he learned that women delegates had been refused theirs.
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 African American Registry: Charles Remond, abolitionist and orator
An outstanding orator, Remond spoke at public meetings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania.
In 1840 Remond went on a lecture tour of Europe and while in England attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
Charles Lenox Remond died in Massachusetts on the 22nd of December 1873.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1386/Charles_Remond_abolitionist_and_orator   (136 words)

  
 Brian.Carnell.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Remond, Rogers, and Adams followed his example and took their places with the rejected women delegates likewise.
The convention was scandalized at such proceedings, and did its best to draw Garrison and his associates from the ladies in the galleries to the men on the floor, but without avail.
Haydon, who it seems was a student of human nature as well as of the human form, made the discovery of a fact which at first surprised and angered him.
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 Buffalo History -WILLIAM WELLS BROWN IN BUFFALO
Douglass and Remond made their second trip to the region and their first to Buffalo in the summer of 1843, while they were on their tour of the One Hundred Antislavery Conventions to which I have referred.
On the third day of the convention a resolution proclaiming it "the duty of every lover of liberty to vote the Liberty [Party] ticket so long as they are consistent with their principles" was passed, with seven dissenting votes.
From Garnet's reference to the residence of the two delegates, Brown identified them as Douglass and Remond; and after noting that "six or seven" had voted against the resolution, as he thought Garnet should have remembered, he confessed himself bewildered by Garnet's singularizing of these two individuals.
www.buffalonian.com /history/articles/1801-50/1836WELLsbROWNBUFFALO.html   (4575 words)

  
 Brown, Hallie Q.
Homespun heroines
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She was the daughter of Felicia Fitzgerald, a native of Cork, Ireland, and Charles Richards a man of financial standing.
Delany decided that the children should be named for illustrious members of their own race, and these are the seven who reached their majority.
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Charles Lenox Remond, Alexandre Dumas, Saint Cyprian, Faustin Soulouque, Placido Rameses, Hallie Amelia, Ethiopia.
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 The African Meeting House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Throughout its almost 100 year history, the halls of the African Meeting House echoed with the voices of activists - Black and White, male and female - who were committed to the cause of racial freedom and equality.
These voices included: Frederick Douglass, Maria W. Stewart, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison, Robert Morris, William Nell, and Charles Lenox Remond.
As the only one of Boston's nineteenth century Black church buildings still standing, and as the oldest Black church building in the country, the African Meeting House stands as a testament to the enduring legacy of the courage and determination of Boston's Black community.
www.nps.gov /boaf/amh3.htm   (330 words)

  
 the man's place
Frederick Douglass, William C. Nell, and Charles Lenox Remond, all feminist supporters as well as abolitionists, have made note of the support they received from white female abolitionists.
Historian Louis Filler notes that when fl reformers turned to the women's rights issue, few fl women were prominent in the movement: the best known woman's rights advocates among fls were men.
Among the Afro-American men active in the mid-nineteenth-century feminist movement were Frederick Douglass, Charles Remond, James Forten, Sr., James Forten, Jr.
www.wam.umd.edu /~jklumpp/comm460/drummond/COMM460/the_man's_place.htm   (273 words)

  
 Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail -- Site of the Temple
Brown spoke on "the effects of emancipation on the fls of the South and the white laborers of the North." In subsequent letters to the editor, Portsmouth racists bristle at the prospect of equal status for fl Americans.
Charles Lenox Remond, born free in Salem, Massachusetts, promoted a practical approach to bettering the condition of fl Americans.
In February 1854 Remond spoke at the Temple.
www.seacoastnh.com /blackhistory/trail16.html   (399 words)

  
 Story of the Hutchinsons - Volume 1 Chapter 3 Part 1 (1842-1843)
Charles Follen was an abolitionist and a one-time Harvard professor.
Chapman, Charles Lenox Remond, N. Rogers, Parker Pillsbury, Stephen Foster, Theodore Parker, Francis Jackson, chairman of the meeting, and his lovely daughter Harriet.
Such a fold and such a unity was an inspiration to lofty resolutions; and when approached in regard to going with the selected advocate to hold a series of anti-slavery meetings, we most cheerfully acceded.
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According to Moore, Hawthorne took dancing lessons in 1818 from William Turner, who held an annual exhibition by his students, and again in 1820 from John M. Boisseaux (89), but there is no evidence that these lessons took place in Hamilton Hall.
Remond had come to Salem at the age of ten in 1798 on the ship Six Brothers and was employed as a baker by the brother of the ship's master.
Two of the children of this respected fl couple, Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873) and Sarah Parker Remond (1824-1873), played important roles in the Abolition movement (139).
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 Archival Elements
John and Nancy Remond encouraged their children to fight racial prejudice and Sarah grew up challenging Northern bigotry by demanding public accommodations often denied to free fls.
Charles Lenox Remond was appointed the first fl lecturing agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, in 1838.
At that convention, Remond, William Lloyd Garrison, Nathaniel Peabody Rogers and William Adams left the floor as a gesture of solidarity with their banned female colleagues.
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 aboliitone / CharlesLRemon.jpg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873) was the second child of John and Nancy (Lenox) Remond.
An anti-slavery orator, Remond (1810 –; 1873) was a life member of the American Anti-Slavery Society and a leader in the abolitionist movement in Salem.
During the Civil War, he recruited for the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a fl unit famously memorialized in a statue by Augustus St. Gaudens that stands on Boston Common (see "Additional Primary Sources Used in Content and Follow-up Sessions" section below).
www.saleminhistory.org /SocialChangesSocialReform/abolitionism/pages/CharlesLRemon_jpg.htm   (110 words)

  
 African-Americans in the Anti-Slavery Movement
Blacks were important to local and regional Anti-slavery groups that needed speakers and also people to contribute time and energy to the cause.
Famous speakers included: Frederick Douglass, William Jones, Charles Lenox Remond, Theodore S. Wright, Frances E. Harper, Henry Foster, Lunsford Lane, Henry Highland Garnet, Charles Gardner, Andrew Harris, Abraham Shadd, David Nickens, James Bradley, and William Wells Brown (Franklin 251).
Maria W. Stewart, was a free fl that broke the "taboo against female speakers," by lecturing in New England in the 1830s.
cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /slavery/anti-slavery_movement/africans.htm   (1653 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - African American History
Douglass had escaped from slavery in 1838 and worked passionately for the antislavery cause.
He joined other men and women, such as Sojourner Truth and Charles Lenox Remond, who traveled throughout the North testifying against slavery and organizing moral and political opposition.
Abolitionist women commonly organized fairs and concerts to raise funds for antislavery work.
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 Frederick Douglass African American Civil War Soldiers
Among the recruits arriving at boot camp were two of Douglass' sons Lewis and Charles.
Lewis, the older son, served as the first sergeant major of the 54th and he was in the thick of the fighting at Fort Wagner where 1515 Union troops were mowed down by a blistering barrage from the Confederate stronghold.
Douglass becomes a recruiter for the 54 th Massachusetts Infantry, the first regiment of African-American soldiers; his sons Lewis and Charles join the regiment.
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 Introduction to Milo Adams Townsend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
William Lloyd Garrison in a letter to his wife, Helen E. Garrison, August 16, 1847, pronounced Milo to be one of America's truest reformers whose reformatory pen was potent.
The editors for this compilation are Charles W.
All original letters are owned by Charles, Arlene, and Peggy Jean Townsend with the exception of the letter from Milo A. Townsend to Arthur Bullus Bradford, which is the property of Marjorie Douthitt.
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 William Wells Brown 1814 to 1884
When the two groups met a melee ensued (and the Stanfords escaped), but the men were arrested and fined moe than a months salary each.
Brown's abolitionist career was marked by a turning point in the summer of 1843 when Buffalo hosted a national antislavery convention and the National Convention of Colored Citizens organized by Abner A. Frances, Henry Moxley (a reverend), the Charles L. Reason (the first Black math professor at a white college).
Brown joined these two in their appeal to the power of moral suasion, their rejection of fl antislavery violence (particularly the course espoused by Henry Highland Garnet in his "Address to the Slaves"), and their boycott of political abolitionism.
www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/0history/wwb0.html   (954 words)

  
 No Silence for Slave Masters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Discussion of foreign despotism may seem impertinent after September 11, but now is the most important time to maintain the heat on slave regimes.
They want the hatchway shut down, that the monster may crawl in his den of darkness, crushing human hopes and happiness, destroying the bondman at will, and having no one to reprove or rebuke him.
Abolitionists such as Douglass, Charles Lenox Remond, and Henry Highland Garnet did not advance emancipation by ignoring slavery.
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