| LC control no. | n 87106328 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Nell, William C. (William Cooper), 1816-1874 |
| Variant(s) | Nell, William Cooper, 1816-1874 |
| Biography/History note | Individual was an abolitionist. |
| Associated country | Boston (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1816-12-20 |
| Death date | 1874-05-25 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Boston (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Antislavery movements |
| Affiliation | Smith School for Colored Children (Boston, Mass.) Adelphic Union for the Promotion of Literature and Science Boston Young Men's Society Free Soil Party (Mass.) |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Journalists |
| Found in | nuc86-84297: His The services of colored Americans ... [MI] 1852 (hdg. on MH rept.: Nell, William Cooper, 1816-1874; usage: William C. Nell) LC data base, 06/24/87 (hdg.: Nell, William Cooper, 1816-1874; usage: William C. Nell) African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Nell, William Cooper; abolitionist, historian, journalist; born 20 December, 1816 in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, United States; studied at all-black Smith School at Boston's African Meeting House; dedicated life to eliminating racial barriers; worked as errand boy (1831), printer's apprentice, clerk in paper's operations (1840), wrote for the leading antislavery journal Liberator (1831-1865) about records over antislavery feelings, in lower Canada West (later Ontario) and Midwest (1856); used antislavery press as a vehicle to attack segregation; led successful petition campaign against racially separate education in Boston (1840-1855); represented Boston at National Convention of Colored Citizens, in Buffalo, New York (1843); helped establish Freedom Association (1842); established Adelphic Union and Boston Young Men's Literary Society for Boston blacks (1830); was nominated by Free-Soil Party for Massachusetts legislature (1850); was a postal clerk at Boston post office (1861-1874); died 25 May, 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) |
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