Henry Browne Blackwell

Henry Browne Blackwell or sometimes Henry Brown Blackwell was an American advocate for social and economic reform. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and the American Woman Suffrage Association. He published Womans Journal starting in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts with Lucy Stone.

Henry Blackwell was born May 4, 1832, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, the seventh of nine children of Samuel Blackwell and Hannah Lane Blackwell. Blackwells father, a sugar refiner whose livelihood conflicted with his abolitionist principles, experimented with making beet sugar as an alternative to slavegrown cane sugar. In 1832, the family including eight children and their fathers sister Mary emigrated from England. The family settled first in New York, where Blackwells father established a sugar refinery and the ninth child was born, and then just outside New York in Jersey City. Blackwells father took an interest in the nascent abolition movement, and William Lloyd Garrison other leaders were visitors in the familys home. Blackwells eldest sister, Anna, participated in the emerging agitation for womens rights, attending the 1837 AntiSlavery Convention of American Women and drafting its letter to John Quincy Adams thanking him for his support of womens right to petition.

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