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Henry B. (Henry Brewster) Stanton
1805–1887
A fiery abolitionist, journalist, lawyer, and reform speaker, he moved through some of the biggest antislavery battles of 19th-century America. He is also closely linked with the early women’s rights movement through his long partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland
by Henry B. (Henry Brewster) Stanton
About the author
Born in Connecticut in 1805, he became known as an energetic antislavery lecturer and organizer while still a student at Lane Seminary. Reliable sources describe him as an abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist, and politician, and note that he wrote for papers including the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, The Liberator, and the Anti-Slavery Standard.
In 1840 he married Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the couple traveled to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where the exclusion of women delegates became one of the experiences that helped shape the early women’s rights movement. His own reform work continued for decades, and he also served in the New York State Senate in the early 1850s.
Remembered today partly through his connection to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, he was a notable public figure in his own right: a speaker, editor, and political activist whose career ran alongside some of the central reform causes of his era. He died in 1887.