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Henry Brewster Stanton (June 27, 1805 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician. His writing was published in the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, and William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator.
So wrote Henry Brewster Stanton recalling his experiences on the road as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society (Random Recollections 51, 55). The mobs were vicious. They attacked speakers, threatened lives, burned buildings, and disrupted the peace.
The Stanton brothers traced their ancestry to two prominent early New England colonists: William Brewster, religious leader of the Mayflower pilgrims of 1620; and Thomas Stanton, founder of Stonington, Connecticut, in 1666.
Henry Stanton. Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady were married on May 1, 1840 in Johnstown, New York. As a student at the Lane Seminary, Stanton became an accomplished abolionist lecturer and organizer of the Liberty Party.
He was a white-American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist, and politician. Henry Brewster Stanton was born in Preston, Connecticut, the son of Joseph Stanton and Susan M. Brewster. His father manufactured woolen goods and traded with the West Indies.
Frequently portrayed as the antagonist in his wife's struggle for women's rights, as a husband and a father Henry Stanton has become synonymous in the historical discourse with the very oppression his wife devoted her life to ending.
The exhibit also traces the lives of some members of his family: his brother, Henry Brewster Stanton, fiery orator of the American Anti-Slavery Society and politician; his son, Robert Brewster (Bob) Stanton, intrepid explorer and civil engineer; and, most important historically, his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founder of the woman ...
