David Ruggles

By Graham Russell Gao Hodges,

Book cover of David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City

Book description

David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former…

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An early proponent of the rights of Black Americans, Ruggles, a free black, devoted his life to protecting Blacks from the scourge of kidnapping and protecting the enslaved who managed to make it to freedom in New York City.

Everyone should know about this early fighter against slavery and racial discrimination.

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