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Stephen Symonds Foster (November 17, 1809 – September 13, 1881) was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public speaking, and for his stance against those in the church who failed to fight slavery. His marriage to Abby Kelley brought his energetic activism to bear on women's rights. He spoke out for temperance, and agitated against any government, including his own, that would condone slavery.

Foster helped establish the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society, and belonged to the 'New Hampshire radicals' group within the American Anti-Slavery Society. Foster wrote anti-slavery tracts and published in 1843 a widely discussed book that met with protest and critical response: The Brotherhood of Thieves; or A True Picture of the American Church and Clergy: A Letter to Nathaniel Barney, of Nantucket. At Liberty Farm where they lived, Foster and his wife formed a link on the Underground Railroad, and helped fugitive slaves reach Canada and freedom.

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Stephen Symonds Foster

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Stephen Symonds Foster (November 17, 1809 – September 13, 1881) was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public...

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Abby Kelley

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and other radicals. She married fellow abolitionist and lecturer Stephen Symonds Foster, and they both worked for equal rights for women and for Africans...

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Parker Pillsbury

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and social reform, often in the company of fellow abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster. He earned a reputation for successfully dealing with hostile crowds...

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Sojourner Truth

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broad interests of all humanity." Truth—along with Stephen Symonds Foster and Abby Kelley Foster, Jonathan Walker, Marius Robinson, and Sallie Holley—reorganized...

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Liberty Farm

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Abby Kelley Foster (1810–1887) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-1881), early vocal abolitionists and women's rights activists. The Fosters used their house...

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American Equal Rights Association

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American poet and anti-slavery lecturer Abby Kelley Foster and her husband Stephen Symonds Foster were abolitionists who had encouraged Anthony to become...

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Seneca Falls Convention

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Massachusetts. In March 1848, Garrison, the Motts, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster and others hosted an Anti-Sabbath meeting in Boston, to work...

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Christian pacifism

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and Ballou, along with Amos Bronson Alcott, Maria Weston Chapman, Stephen Symonds Foster, Abby Kelley, Samuel May, and Henry C. Wright, founded the New England...

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Sallie Holley

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rarely did so publicly, like Holley. Holley—along with Stephen Symonds Foster and Abby Kelley Foster, Sojourner Truth, Marius Robinson, and Jonathan Walker—reorganized...

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List of abolitionists

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Forten (American) Margaretta Forten (American) Abby Kelley Foster (American) Stephen Symonds Foster (American) Benjamin Franklin (American) Amos Noë Freeman...

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Lucy Stone

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Oberlin, Stone had arranged for her friend Abby Kelley Foster and her new husband, Stephen Symonds Foster, to speak there on the abolition of slavery. Afterwards...

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Portland Freedom Trail

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1842, a pro-slavery riot occurred at the church after abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster spoke about New England's role in the institution of slavery. Secondhand...

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Rodney French

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with fellow radical abolitionists Nathaniel Peabody Rogers and Stephen Symonds Foster, asked the convention to declare "that the church and clergy of...

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New England Woman Suffrage Association

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the new organization included John Neal, Abby Kelley Foster, her husband Stephen Symonds Foster, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, many of whom had been...

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List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

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belonged to abolitionists and suffragists Abby Kelley Foster (1811–87) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809–81), and was used by them as a site on the Underground...

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List of Equinox episodes

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Pat Symonds of Benetton Racing; Simon Taylor (journalist) of Motor Sport; Graham Rood of DERA Air Systems in north Hampshire. Narrated by Stephen Rashbrook...

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