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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.


Gerrit Smith


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A staunch abolitionist he was a member of the Secret Six who financially supported John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry West Virginia. Besides making substantial donations of both land and money to the African-American community in North Elba New York he was involved in the Temperance Movement and later in life the colonization movement. Smith a significant financial contributor to the Liberty Party and the Republican Party throughout his life spent much time and money working towards social progress in the nineteenth century United States.

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