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Author Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946- editor.

Title David Ruggles : a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City / Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Contents A revolutionary childhood -- An apprentice abolitionist in post-emancipation New York City -- Making practical abolitionism -- Melding black abolitionism and the underground railroad -- Abolitionist and physician
Summary 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 Vigil
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 8, 2021)
Subject Ruggles, David, 1810-1849.
SUBJECT Ruggles, David, 1810-1849
Ruggles, David, 1810-1849 fast
Subject Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography
African American abolitionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
African American abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography
Underground Railroad -- New York (State) -- New York
Underground Railroad -- Massachusetts
Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
Abolitionists
African American abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Underground Railroad
Massachusetts
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009031106
ISBN 9780807895795
0807895792
9781469604213
1469604213