Lewis Hayden

Lewis Hayden

American abolitionist, lecturer, businessman and politician (1811–1889)

📍 Lexington, Kentucky USA

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Lewis Hayden escaped slavery in Kentucky with his family and reached Canada. He established a school for African Americans before moving to Boston, Massachusetts. There he became an abolitionist, lecturer, businessman, and politician. Before the American Civil War, he and his wife Harriet Hayden aided numerous fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad, often sheltering them at their house.

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