born January 4, 1789, Sussex county, N.J., U.S.
died Aug. 22, 1839, Lowell, Ill.
U.S. abolitionist and publisher.
He worked in Virginia and Ohio, where he organized the Union Humane Society (1815), one of the first antislavery societies. In 1821 he founded a newspaper, the Genius of Universal Emancipation , which he edited in various places until 1835, when he began publishing another paper, the National Enquirer (later the Pennsylvania Freeman ), in Philadelphia. He traveled in search of places for former slaves to settle, including Canada and Haiti.