LUNDY, Benjamin, American abolition ist: b. Hardwick. Warren County, N. J., 4 Jan. 1789; d. Lowell, La Salle County, Ill., 22 Aug. 1839. His parents were members of the Soci ety of Friends. At 19 be removed to Wheel ing, then in Virginia, where he labored as an apprentice to a saddler. At this place, which was a centre of the slave trade in those days, his attention was first directed to the subject of slavery. He subsequently settled in business in Saint Clairsville, Va., where in 1815 he orig inated an anti-slavery association, called the Humane Society' and had a member ship of nearly 500. Soon after a journal enti tled The Philanthropist was commenced at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, to which Lundy con tributed. He then visited Saint Louis, where he remained nearly two years engaged in a newspaper exposition of the slavery question. At Mount Pleasant, he commenced, in 1821, the publication of the Genius of Universal pation, the office of which was removed to Bal timore in 1824. In 1825 he visited Haiti to make arrangements for the settlement of eman cipated slaves and a few years later he made a second voyage there for the same purpose. His efforts for abolition aroused the bitter hos tility of the slave-holding class and the slave dealers, one of whom assaulted Lundy in Balti more in 1827. In 1828 he visited the Eastern
States; where he formed the acquaintance of a number of prominent abolitionists, one of whom, William Lloyd Garrison, afterward be came associated with him in editing his journal. Garrison and Lundy differed in their policies for bringing about abolition. Lundy favored colon ization abroad while Garrison advocated imme diate emancipation on the soil. In 1830-31 he traveled in Canada and Texas to obtain sub scribers to his paper and to continue his obser vation on the condition of the slaves. He con tinued his literary connection with the Genius of Universal Emancipation as long as it was published, and was the first to establish anti slavery periodicals and the delivery of anti slavery lectures, and probably the first to into duce the formation of societies for the encour agement of the produce of free labor. Consult Armstrong, W. C.,