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Henry B. (Henry Brewster) Stanton
1805–1887
A fiery antislavery speaker and political reformer, he spent decades in the thick of 19th-century American debates over slavery, law, and public life. He is also remembered as the husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, though his own career ranged from journalism to state politics.
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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, Henry Brewster Stanton became known as an abolitionist lecturer, organizer, journalist, and later a lawyer and politician. He studied at Lane Seminary, where the slavery debates helped shape his public career, and he went on to write for several reform-minded newspapers.
In 1840 he married Elizabeth Cady, later famous as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the two traveled to London for the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Stanton remained active in public life for many years, serving in the New York State Senate and building a reputation in law as well as journalism.
He died in 1887. His life sits at the crossroads of major reform movements in the United States, especially abolition, and offers a close view of the political energy of the decades before and after the Civil War.