Philip Alexander Bell

1809 -1889

Name: Philip Alexander BELL

Birthplace: Unknown

Status: Free Person of Color

Residence: New York City

Occupation/Training: Editor & Publisher

Abolitionist Involvement: Organized a group of Free Black citizens in New York. Active member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. When opposition arose towards the Colonization movement, Bell was a leader in the colored Self Improvement organizations. He spoke out publicly against segregation in New York, and the colonizationists whom he felt were divisive among abolitionists. Was well known activist in the abolitionist community in New York, and in the American Anti-Slavery Society. He founded the newspaper the Weekly Advocate,and later the Colored American. In the 1850's he moved to California, and worked as editor of the Pacific Appeal. In 1865, he edited the Elevator, which was absorbed into Mirror of the Times.

Place of Death: California in 1889

Publications/References: Philip Alexander Bell: San Francisco Black Community Politician of the 1860's (only copy known to be mimeographed copy in the San Francisco Library). Other references on Bell found in, "The Rising Sun...(1874) The Address and Constitution on the Phoenix Society and The Auxiliary Ward Associations in Early Negro Writing 1760-1837

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