Ruggles, David, 1810-1849
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Name (Latin)
Ruggles, David, 1810-1849
Date of birth
1810-03-15
Date of death
1849-12-16
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Businessmen
Civil rights workers
Journalists
Newspaper editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- nuc88-86041: His The "extinguisher" extinguished [MI] 1834(hdg. on CtY rept.: Ruggles, David; usage: David Ruggles)
- LC data base, 4/13/89(hdg.: Ruggles, David)
- Logan, R.W. Dict. of Ameri. Negro bio., 1982:p. 536 (Ruggles, David; businessman; abolitionist; journalist; hydropathist; educated at Sabbath School for the Poor in Norwich, Conn.; owner of bookshop in N.Y.C. circulating abolitionist and anticolonization literature; 1835 bookshop burned by white mob; travelling agent for newspaper, The Emancipator; author of pamphlets; conductor on Underground Railroad; b. 1810 at Norwich, Conn.; d. 12/26/1849)
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Wikipedia description:
David Ruggles (March 15, 1810 – December 16, 1849) was an African-American abolitionist in New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance, which worked on the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves reach free states. He was a printer in New York City during the 1830s, who also wrote numerous articles, and "was the prototype for black activist journalists of his time." He claimed to have led more than 600 fugitive slaves to freedom in the North, including Frederick Douglass, who became a friend and fellow activist. Ruggles opened the first African-American bookstore in 1834.
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