Benjamin Lundy (January 4, 1789 - August 22, 1839) was a Quaker abolitionist who started and worked on many anti-slavery newspapers.

He was born in Censored page. When he turned nineteen, he moved to Wheeling, Virginia, and spent the first first eighteen months working as a saddlemaker 's apprentice. Four years later, he moved to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and then to St. Clairsville where he formed the Union Humane Society in 1815, and in 1819, he founded the antislavery periodical, Philanthropist, which was published at Mt. Pleasant. In 1819 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. After moving back to Mt. Pleasant, in 1821, Lundy founded The Genius of Universal Emancipation. In 1829, William Lloyd Garrison became co-editor of Genius of Universal Emancipation with Lundy. A year later, Lundy began the National Enquirer, in Pennsylvania.

In 1839, after moving to Lowell, La Salle County, Illinois, he revived the Genius of Universal Emancipation.

External links

• Famous Americans: Benjamin Lundy http://www.famousamericans.net/benjaminlundy/
• Spartacus Educational: Benjamin Lundy http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASlundy.htm