William I. Bowditch
William Ingersoll Bowditch (August 5, 1819January 24, 1909) was an American lawyer, writer, abolitionist, and suffragist from Massachusetts. The landmarked
William Ingersoll Bowditch House in Brookline, Massachusetts, was a station on the
Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War. One historian has argued that "From 1835 to 1860 the history of the moral movement against slavery in America is the history of
William Lloyd Garrison and his great coadjutors like
Wendell Phillips,
Theodore D. Weld,
Parker Pillsbury,
Frederick Douglass,
Theodore Parker,
Lucretia Mott,
Stephen and
Abby Kelly Foster, the
sisters Grimké,
Samuel E. Sewall,
Ellis Gray Loring,
Maria Weston Chapman,
David Lee and
Lydia Maria Child,
Francis Jackson,
Samuel J. May,
Samuel May,
Edmund Quincy, Henry I. and William I. Bowditch, and
Lucy Stone." Another history describes Bowditch as the "leading Constitutional scholar" among the abolitionists. In 1849 Bowditch wrote that the
U.S. Constitution was a radically pro-slavery document.
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