Samuel Cornish
1795 -1858
Name: Samuel Cornish
Birthplace: Sussex County Delaware
Status: Free Person of Color
Occupation/Training: Editor, Author
Residence: Delaware, Philadelphia, New York
Abolitionist Involvement: Worked closely with free blacks in New York, and the Anti Slavery Society. Established churches between 1824-1858 in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, and edited newspapers with John Russworm, and founded the Freedom Journal in 1827. Co-edited the Colored American. Worked in the many self improvement organizations in New York, and was a leader among the Free colored citizens in New York, particularly the New York City Phoenix Society Mutual Aid organization.
Family: Wife--Jane Livingston Children--Sarah Matilda William, Samuel, Jane Sophia Tappan
Publications: The Colonization Scheme Considered and its Rejection by the Coloured People
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