The National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia in its section on the rise of anti slavery thought and publications, gives primary place and original publisher status, to both Ben Lundy and his Genius of Universal Emanciption published at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.
Ben Lundy was among the earliest of abolitionist newspaper publishers in the early 19th century. His paper would become the pioneering vanguard Quaker based paper that would eventually kick off the 19th Century anti slavery movement in print, which would in turn both directly inspire and give rise to those second generation great papers that would follow, like William L Garrison's The Liberator, and Frederick Douglass's North Star and others...
The fact that such an esteemed National Center which has won many awards for its design and its archives and contribution to modern understanding of our nation's founding document and its historians give such public primary significance to the influence and pivotal role of Ben Lundy and his Genuis which their site clearly states was published in Mt.Pleasant, is yet another affirmation of the "national significance" of Lundy and his residence, which is located still today, in Mt.Pleasant.
We are presently in a race for time in trying to save this residence and amazing piece of american antebellum history and a virtual witness to the most important human rights campaign in U.S. history arguably.
The national center site can be found on line at http://constitutioncenter.org/
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