Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1882) was an
African-American abolitionist who was born free in
Salem, Massachusetts. He was an anti-slavery orator who spoke at public meetings in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island,
Maine,
New York and
Pennsylvania. In 1838 the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, chose him as one of its agents. As a delagate from the
American Anti-Slavery Society he went with
William Lloyd Garrison to the
World's Anti-Slavery Convention in
London in 1840. He recruited black soldiers in Massachusetts for the
Union Army during the
Civil War. After the war, he worked as a clerk in the Boston Customs House, and a street lamp inspector.
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