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David Ruggles
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Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
David Ruggles written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee of Vigilance, he advocated a "practical abolitionism" that included civil disobedience and self-defense in order to preserve the rights of self-emancipated enslaved people and to protect free blacks from kidnappers who would sell them into slavery in the South. Hodges's narrative places Ruggles in the fractious politics and society of New York, where he moved among the highest ranks of state leaders and spoke up for common black New Yorkers. His work on the Committee of Vigilance inspired many upstate New York and New England whites, who allied with him to form a network that became the Underground Railroad. Hodges's portrait of David Ruggles establishes the abolitionist as an essential link between disparate groups--male and female, black and white, clerical and secular, elite and rank-and-file--recasting the history of antebellum abolitionism as a more integrated and cohesive movement than is often portrayed.
The Abrogation Of The Seventh Commandment By The American Churches
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Author : David Ruggles
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-16
The Abrogation Of The Seventh Commandment By The American Churches written by David Ruggles and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-16 with categories.
David Ruggles was born Lyme, Connecticut to David and Nancy Ruggles in 1810. His parents were both free blacks. The family moved to Norwich, where his father was a blacksmith and woodcutter and his mother a caterer. They were devout Methodists. David was the oldest of eight children. He was educated at Sabbath Schools, and was so bright that neighbors paid for a tutor from Yale to teach him Latin.In 1826, sixteen year old Ruggles moved to New York City. There he opened a a grocery store. Initially, he sold liquor but latter embraced the temperance movement and stopped. Becoming involved in the anti-slavery cause, he was a sales agent for and contributor to The Liberator and The Emancipator, abolitionist newspapers.After closing the grocery, Ruggles opened the first African American-owned bookstore in the United States. He edited a New York journal called The Mirror of Liberty, and also published a pamphlet called The Extinguisher. He also published "The Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment" in 1835, an appeal to northern women to confront husbands who kept enslaved black women as mistresses. Ruggles was secretary of the New York Committee of Vigilance, a radical biracial organization to aid fugitive slaves, oppose slavery, and inform enslaved workers in New York about their rights in the state. New York had abolished slavery and stated that slaves voluntarily brought to the state by a master would automatically gain freedom after nine months of residence. On occasion, Ruggles went to private homes after learning that enslaved blacks were hidden there, to tell workers that they were free. In October 1838, Ruggles assisted Frederick Douglass on his journey to freedom, and reunited Douglass with his fianc� Anna Murray. Rev. James Pennington, a run away slave, married Murray and Douglass in Ruggles' home shortly thereafter. Douglass' autobiography 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' explains "I had been in New York but a few days, when Mr. Ruggles sought me out, and very kindly took me to his boarding-house at the corner of Church and Lespenard Streets. Mr. Ruggles was then very deeply engaged in the memorable Darg case, as well as attending to a number of other fugitive slaves, devising ways and means for their successful escape; and, though watched and hemmed in on almost every side, he seemed to be more than a match for his enemies." Ruggles was especially active against "kidnappers," bounty hunters who made a living by capturing escaped slaves. With demand high for slaves in the Deep South, there was also risk from men who kidnapped free blacks and sold them into slavery, as was done to Solomon Northup of Saratoga Springs, New York in 1841. With the Vigilance committee, Ruggles fought for fugitive slaves to have the right to jury trials and helped arrange legal assistance for them. His activism earned him many enemies. Ruggles was physically assaulted and his business was destroyed through arson. He quickly reopened his library and bookshop. There were two known attempts to kidnap him and sell him into slavery in the South.[6] His enemies included fellow abolitionists who disagreed with his tactics. He was criticized for his role in the well-publicized Darg case of 1838 involving a Virginia slaveholder named John P. Darg and his slave, Thomas Hughes. Ruggles suffered from ill health, which intensified following the Darg case. In 1841, his father died, and Ruggles was ailing and almost blind. In 1842, Lydia Maria Child, a fellow abolitionist and friend, arranged for him to join a radical utopian commune called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, in the present-day village of Florence, Massachusetts.Ruggles died in Florence in 1849, due to a bowel infection.
The Kidnapping Club
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Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-10-20
The Kidnapping Club written by Jonathan Daniel Wells and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with History categories.
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom. We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe. Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. In The Kidnapping Club, historian Jonathan Daniel Wells tells the story of the powerful network of judges, lawyers, and police officers who circumvented anti-slavery laws by sanctioning the kidnapping of free and fugitive African Americans. Nicknamed "The New York Kidnapping Club," the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists, including Black journalist David Ruggles, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers, often risking their lives in the process. Taking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America's great Northern metropolis, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing, and the strength of Black activism.
The Extinguisher Extinguished
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Author : David Ruggles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1834
The Extinguisher Extinguished written by David Ruggles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1834 with Slavery categories.
William Cooper Nell Nineteenth Century African American Abolitionist Historian Integrationist
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Author : William Cooper Nell
language : en
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Release Date : 2002
William Cooper Nell Nineteenth Century African American Abolitionist Historian Integrationist written by William Cooper Nell and has been published by Black Classic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For the first time, a biography of William Cooper Nell and a major portion of his articles for "The Liberator", "The National Anti-Slavery Standard", and "The North Star" have been published in a single volume. The book is the first to document the life and works of Nell and includes correspondence with many noted abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, Amy Kirby Post and Charles Sumner.
The Abrogation Of The Seventh Commandment By The American Churches
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Author : George Bourne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1835
The Abrogation Of The Seventh Commandment By The American Churches written by George Bourne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1835 with Slavery categories.
Library Of Universal Adventure By Sea And Land
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Author : William Dean Howells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Library Of Universal Adventure By Sea And Land written by William Dean Howells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
Report
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Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee to Investigate the New York and Erie Railroad Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Report written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee to Investigate the New York and Erie Railroad Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Railroads categories.
Documents Of The Assembly Of The State Of New York
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Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Documents Of The Assembly Of The State Of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with categories.
The Extinguisher Extinguished
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Author : David Ruggles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1834
The Extinguisher Extinguished written by David Ruggles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1834 with Slavery categories.