This Wiki link describes the original publication of Ben Lundy's original
anti-slavery newspaper and its founding in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.
Its significance and the papers direct link to the later young editor and Lundy convert
to abolitionism, William L. Garrison is also referenced here below.
Genius of Universal Emancipation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline
American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline
Lundy's place in the original American published opposition to slavery
is noted by the Philadelphia History Convention, and its publication
noted as being from Mt. Pleasant, Ohio
Lundy's place in the original American published opposition to slavery
is noted by the Philadelphia History Convention, and its publication
noted as being from Mt. Pleasant, Ohio
Buying the Lundy: Richard A. Olivito speaks about the Legacy of One of the Pioneers of the Modern Human Rights Movement
Ben Lundy...
is known to some historians and those who study American Antebellum antislavery issues as one of the early Quaker abolitionists...
yet, upon closer examination, Lundy appears not just as an original abolitionists publisher and early Quaker antislavery advocate, of the early antebellum era, dating to 1815, well before Frederick Douglass was even able to speak and 15 yrs prior to William L Garrison being led into the movement by Lundy, in 1827...
but in reality, Lundy, in my view, was not just a man of his times fighting against a national sin, but a virtual pioneer of human rights worldwide. His work was done in such a manner and on such a different moral and spiritual plane, for his era in particular, that in many ways, he was over a 150 yrs ahead of his time or more.
As the new owner of the National Landmark home recognized by the U.S. Dept of Interior, Mr. Richard Olivito would like to focus on this part of Lundy's work and legacy, not just for the cause of studying and experiencing a great american abolitionist...but for his original work on human rights worldwide.
is known to some historians and those who study American Antebellum antislavery issues as one of the early Quaker abolitionists...
yet, upon closer examination, Lundy appears not just as an original abolitionists publisher and early Quaker antislavery advocate, of the early antebellum era, dating to 1815, well before Frederick Douglass was even able to speak and 15 yrs prior to William L Garrison being led into the movement by Lundy, in 1827...
but in reality, Lundy, in my view, was not just a man of his times fighting against a national sin, but a virtual pioneer of human rights worldwide. His work was done in such a manner and on such a different moral and spiritual plane, for his era in particular, that in many ways, he was over a 150 yrs ahead of his time or more.
As the new owner of the National Landmark home recognized by the U.S. Dept of Interior, Mr. Richard Olivito would like to focus on this part of Lundy's work and legacy, not just for the cause of studying and experiencing a great american abolitionist...but for his original work on human rights worldwide.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Abolitionist Benjamin Lundy's 1833 Visit to San Antonio - University of the Incarnate Word
Abolitionist Benjamin Lundy's 1833 Visit to San Antonio - University of the Incarnate Word
Lundy visited Texas several times in the 1830s and his visits made an impact. today, in his own
words, his observations and notes and commentary still provide one of the most noteworthy
and unique insights into american race relations in Texas, about thirty years prior to
the civil war
Lundy visited Texas several times in the 1830s and his visits made an impact. today, in his own
words, his observations and notes and commentary still provide one of the most noteworthy
and unique insights into american race relations in Texas, about thirty years prior to
the civil war
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
MHS William Lloyd Garrison Papers, 1833-1882 : Guide to the Microfilm Edition
This link from the papers of William L Garrison, on file at the Mass Historical Society Library,
demonstrates the clear direct connection and vital influence Ben Lundy had w/ the early formation and
guidance of Garrison, in the 1820's....before Garrison would begin to publish "The Liberator" several years
after his editorship at Lundy's Genius of Universal Emancipation...
MHS William Lloyd Garrison Papers, 1833-1882 : Guide to the Microfilm Edition
demonstrates the clear direct connection and vital influence Ben Lundy had w/ the early formation and
guidance of Garrison, in the 1820's....before Garrison would begin to publish "The Liberator" several years
after his editorship at Lundy's Genius of Universal Emancipation...
MHS William Lloyd Garrison Papers, 1833-1882 : Guide to the Microfilm Edition
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The Purpose of this Blog is to help educate, raise awarness of the life, times and work of one of America's most important Early Abolitionists, Benjamin Lundy and to help salvage a National Historick Landmark called by his name in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio
Ben Lundy was a Quaker abolitionists who at the early age of 20 yrs old, having moved w/ his family from New Jersey to southern Ohio region, witnessed the suffering of the slaves at Wheeling, Virginia, during wintertime, as they were being led to a slave auction in the dead of winter...
Witnessing the event that cold winter evening, changed his life forever and gave him his calling causing him to found the first "Humane Society" of its kind in 'western' America in 1813 and also helped him found one of the original abolitionists newspapers in the young nation, "The Genius of Universal Emancipation." in 1821, which was published early on, in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio from what is now called "the Lundy home", a house built in 1812/3 by fellow Quaker and abolitionists, inside what would soon become a key upper Ohio River eastern Ohio, underground railroad community.
Lundy's total commitment to antislavery and yet his powerful but gentle non violent means to ending it, by "moral suasion", as they called it, would in time, directly impact all of Antebellum America forever, beginning right from the banks of the Ohio river and eventually allow his Quaker influenced direct advocacy and original publishing to give rise to some of the greatest names and efforts in all of American anti-slavery efforts, including William L. Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
Ben Lundy, along with many Eastern Ohio abolitionists have largely been overlooked in their originality and their singular solitary vital influence in all of both abolitionism and the formation of what we take for granted today, inside America. He is one of the true original pioneers of human rights for every person living anywhere in the nation and well beyond. Lundy from early in his life, was a harness maker, and a self taught newspaper editor by trade; he was also a man of his times yet he was well beyond that; he is a witness to the power of one. He was the spiritual father of what would become American abolitionism as we come to understand it...
and his voice, thought to be silenced by the passage of time and made irrelevant by most of what passes for modern history of civil rights, is to be given its original place and position of honor, today, in the majesty that is called America's centuries long struggle for human rights and civil rights...
If we shall honor the modern giants of 20th Century civil rights struggles in America, [and we should] we ought to in no small way, also honor those who came before and set the foundation upon which all great struggles for human freedom began. Their vital lives largely spent not in the huge glare of modern' national media atttention, but done largely in isolation and deep reverence, ought to today be remembered for its witness to the power of the individual's contribution to march of human equality and social progress in the last two hundred years.
This blog is dedicated to not just bringing Lundy's contribution to life and remembrance, but to honor his powerful role in the formation of the first principles of human rights for all, upon which all peoples from around the world both have either benefited, or are trying today, hard, to live by and to ascend to...
even as we watch today, this year, many in the middle eastern cultures struggle and even die to achieve their own social and human rights freedoms.
towards that end, we hope to not just study and redress the historical record of Ben Lundy's life's work but also, we hope to save his original home which can be found in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, which itself, has fallen into serious disrepair and threatened status, thru severe neglect , knowing that in doing so, we intend
to make once again, known, precisely the powerful role Ben Lundy and his "disciples' played in the origination of early American abolitionism and what kind of witness he personally was and how he maintained the same, thru a lifetime of poverty, of sacrifice and of giving of himself to those who could not help themselves all done...
for the witness of Jesus Christ in the Gospels which called Lundy, in his view, to love his fellow man in and thru this noteworthy work and life of his giving voice to those who had so little ability at the time, to have one for themselves.
Witnessing the event that cold winter evening, changed his life forever and gave him his calling causing him to found the first "Humane Society" of its kind in 'western' America in 1813 and also helped him found one of the original abolitionists newspapers in the young nation, "The Genius of Universal Emancipation." in 1821, which was published early on, in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio from what is now called "the Lundy home", a house built in 1812/3 by fellow Quaker and abolitionists, inside what would soon become a key upper Ohio River eastern Ohio, underground railroad community.
Lundy's total commitment to antislavery and yet his powerful but gentle non violent means to ending it, by "moral suasion", as they called it, would in time, directly impact all of Antebellum America forever, beginning right from the banks of the Ohio river and eventually allow his Quaker influenced direct advocacy and original publishing to give rise to some of the greatest names and efforts in all of American anti-slavery efforts, including William L. Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
Ben Lundy, along with many Eastern Ohio abolitionists have largely been overlooked in their originality and their singular solitary vital influence in all of both abolitionism and the formation of what we take for granted today, inside America. He is one of the true original pioneers of human rights for every person living anywhere in the nation and well beyond. Lundy from early in his life, was a harness maker, and a self taught newspaper editor by trade; he was also a man of his times yet he was well beyond that; he is a witness to the power of one. He was the spiritual father of what would become American abolitionism as we come to understand it...
and his voice, thought to be silenced by the passage of time and made irrelevant by most of what passes for modern history of civil rights, is to be given its original place and position of honor, today, in the majesty that is called America's centuries long struggle for human rights and civil rights...
If we shall honor the modern giants of 20th Century civil rights struggles in America, [and we should] we ought to in no small way, also honor those who came before and set the foundation upon which all great struggles for human freedom began. Their vital lives largely spent not in the huge glare of modern' national media atttention, but done largely in isolation and deep reverence, ought to today be remembered for its witness to the power of the individual's contribution to march of human equality and social progress in the last two hundred years.
This blog is dedicated to not just bringing Lundy's contribution to life and remembrance, but to honor his powerful role in the formation of the first principles of human rights for all, upon which all peoples from around the world both have either benefited, or are trying today, hard, to live by and to ascend to...
even as we watch today, this year, many in the middle eastern cultures struggle and even die to achieve their own social and human rights freedoms.
towards that end, we hope to not just study and redress the historical record of Ben Lundy's life's work but also, we hope to save his original home which can be found in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, which itself, has fallen into serious disrepair and threatened status, thru severe neglect , knowing that in doing so, we intend
to make once again, known, precisely the powerful role Ben Lundy and his "disciples' played in the origination of early American abolitionism and what kind of witness he personally was and how he maintained the same, thru a lifetime of poverty, of sacrifice and of giving of himself to those who could not help themselves all done...
for the witness of Jesus Christ in the Gospels which called Lundy, in his view, to love his fellow man in and thru this noteworthy work and life of his giving voice to those who had so little ability at the time, to have one for themselves.
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