#ElihuEmbree (1782–1820) was an influential early American abolitionist from Jonesborough, #EastTennessee, best known for publishing The Emancipator, the first newspaper in the United States devoted exclusively to the abolition of slavery.
Born the son of a Quaker minister who moved from Pennsylvania to Tennessee around 1790, Embree initially participated in the iron manufacturing business with his brother Elijah and, like many in his region, was a slave owner in his early adult life.
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“at the time [in the early 1800s] one could openly challenge the norm of slavery.
“By the 1840s, it would no longer be acceptable as the nation rumbled closer to #war.”
#history #ElihuEmbree #RadicalRepublicans #abolitionism https://www.wbir.com/article/news/history/black-history-month-tn-man-wanted-to-free-the-slaves-he-also-owned-them/51-12f5b806-2ab0-497e-b564-1c3070a5aaba
“Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery.”
The Ulster-Scot ethos runs deep in the #American psyche.
It is an oppressed noble, including frontier, farm-boy, and warrior mindsets.
Yes, this is the story of #ElihuEmbree & the #RadicalRepublicans.
Quakers and abolitionists traveled down the equivalent of the Appalachian Trail, from Boston to Atlanta: https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/elihu-embree/
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