Wendel Phillips

Personal Background

• · I, Wendell Phillips, was born November 29, 1811

• · I died on February 2, 1884

• · I graduated from Harvard College in 1831 and then from Harvard Law School in 1833

• · I am a popular man because I was completely against slavery in a time when it was strong in the South
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• I was a radical abolitionist and wrote many pamphlets on the matter

• · I was also pro women’s rights, and I supported temperance and labor reforms

• · After the Civil War, I worked to help African Americans get civil rights

• · My oratory skills helped me get supporters for my cause

Issues

• · I was completely for abolition

• · The slaves should have been freed earlier

• · I was motivated in my youth, by William Lloyd Garrison, to fight for abolition in the United States

• · As stated earlier, I was for women’s rights, labor reforms, and temperance

Solutions

• · To fight for abolition, I did what many anti-slavery people did and boycotted cane sugar and any cotton clothing, because they were made by slave driven plantations

• · I also wrote pamphlets and made many a speech on the topic to get people to support my cause.

• · I accumulated many followers for my troubles

• · I was unfortunately indicted in 1854 because of my participation in the attempt to break a fugitive slave, Anthony Burns, out of a Boston jail