Stephen Gloucester
- Name
- Stephen Gloucester
- First Name
- Stephen
- Last Name
- Gloucester
- Born
- 1802
- Died
- May 1850
- Profession
- Minister
- Note
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Founded Leavitt Anti-Slavery Society
Taught a black school, and started a Black literary society
Traveled with Charles C. Burleigh in upstate New York in 1839; they were removed from a canal boat for attempting to eat together. Documents to be added to this project. First reported in Myron Holley's Rochester Freeman.
Cowed by anti-Abolitionist riots in 1842 he became more accommodationist, and was condemned by some former allies.
Picture from Wikipedia; they say no known creator or source - Rediscovery of Grave of Gloucester and his wife
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Charles Calistus Burleigh
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Myron Holley
- Related Places
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Eastern Pennsylvania
- Religious Affiliation
- Presbyterian
