Philip Alexander Bell

Biography

Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889) was an American newspaper editor and abolitionist. Born in New York City to an African American family, he was educated at the African Free School and became politically active at the 1832 Colored Convention. He began his newspaper career with William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and became an outspoken voice on a variety of social and political of issues of the day including abolition, suffrage, and the protection of fugitive slaves.

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