2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
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SMITH, Gerrit (1797-1874), also spelled Gerritt, was a leading American social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Spouse to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for President of the United States in 1848, 1856, and 1860, but only served 18 months in the federal government-in Congress as a Free Soil Party Representative, in 1853-4.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. Besides making substantial donations of both land and money to create Timbuctoo, an African-American community in North Elba, New York, he was involved in the temperance movement and the colonization movement, before abandoning colonization in favor of abolitionism, the immediate freeing of all the slaves. He was a member of the Secret Six who financially supported John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, in 1859. Brown's farm, in North Elba, was on land he bought from Smith Autograph "Gerrit Smtih" on blue paper. Fine condition....plus; Imprint "Gerrit Smith And the Vigilant Association of the City of New York." 1860, 29pp. 12mo, fine condition.
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