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Stephen Symonds Foster (November 17, 1809 – September 13, 1881) was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public speaking, and for his stance against those in the church who failed to fight slavery. His marriage to Abby Kelley brought his energetic activism to bear on women's rights.
New Hampshire reformer Stephen Symonds Foster studied for the ministry but left Union Theological Seminary when the faculty demanded he stop giving antislavery lectures. Throughout his career, he sought to hold the church accountable for what he viewed as its complicity in slavery.
He was a white-American abolitionist. Stephen Symonds Foster was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire. His parents, Sarah and Asa Foster, had twelve children; Stephen was the ninth. The family attended the local Congregational church and participated in Canterbury's anti-slavery society.
27 de may. de 2021 · May 27, 2021. Stephen Symonds Foster was born in Canterbury, NH on November 17, 1809. The ninth child of Asa and Sarah Foster, Stephen would grow up to be a leader in the radical wing of the anti-slavery movement, for which he traveled and lectured extensively throughout the northeastern states in the decades before the Civil War.
Stephen Symonds Foster. American abolitionist. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Abigail Foster. In Abigail Kelley Foster. In 1845 she married Stephen S. Foster, a companion on the abolitionist lecture circuit.
Denouncing the Brotherhood of Thieves: Stephen Symonds Foster's Critique of the Anti-Abolitionist Clergy. Troy Duncan and Chris Dixon. Stephen Symonds Foster's abolitionist colleagues were startled when he appeared before the 1844 New England Antislavery Convention holding in one hand an iron collar and in the other a set of manacles.
12 de jun. de 2008 · Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881. Publication date 1886 Topics Slavery -- United States, Slavery and the church Publisher Concord, N.H., P. Pillsbury Collection library_of_congress; americana Contributor The Library of Congress Language English. 75 p. 18 cm First published 1843
