Benjamin Lundy - 1C 53 - Greeneville, TN
Posted by: vhasler
N 36° 09.819 W 082° 49.724
17S E 335513 N 4003649
Lundy published a newspaper devoted to the abolition of slavery
Waymark Code: WM6D88
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 05/16/2009
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Here from 1822-1824 Lundy, a Quaker, published the "Genius of Universal Emancipation," a small monthly paper devoted exclusively to the abolition of slavery. While here he also published a weekly paper, the "Economist and Political Recorder." After 1824, the "Genius" was published in Baltimore.
Marker is on the high corner at the intersection of College and Church Streets at the town hall building.
From the book Marking Time by Fred Brown, pages 113-114, the first line published in his newspaper was from the Declaration of Independence that "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." At one time, nearly one-fifth of all antislavery societies were in East Tennessee. Lundy past away in 1839, but the Genius paper continued until the 1930s.