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Address by Henry B. Stanton and Poem by Alfred B. Street: Pronounced Before the Literary Societies of Hamilton College, July 23,...
Stanton's publications included many pamphlets on social issues.
Henry Brewster Stanton
American politician
For other people named Henry Stanton, see Henry Stanton (disambiguation).
Henry Brewster Stanton (June 27, 1805 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician.
His writing was published in the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, and William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator.[1] He was elected to the New York State Senate in 1850 and 1851.
His wife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
Early life
Stanton was born on June 27, 1805, in Preston, Connecticut, the son of Joseph Stanton and Susan M.
Brewster. His father manufactured woolen goods and traded with the West Indies.[1] He remembered his first desires for racial justice dated from his childhood, as he listened to a slave sing:
In my childhood we had a Negro slave whose voice was attuned to the sweetest cadence.
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