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Benjamin Lundy (1789–1839)
Lundy, Benjamin. An American antislavery agitator; born at Hardwich, NJ, Jan. 4, 1789; died at Lowell, IL, Aug. 22, 1839. He advocated emancipation in frequent contributions to periodicals, till 1821, when he founded the monthly Genius of Universal Emancipation. He started in Philadelphia a weekly antislavery journal. The National Enquirer (1836); and in 1839 was about to revive the Genius of Universal Emancipation at Lowell, when he died. ‘The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy’ was published in 1847.