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Nathaniel Paul

?–1839

United States

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Nathaniel Paul (died July 1839) was a Baptist minister and abolitionist who worked in Albany, New York, Wilberforce Colony in Canada, and traveled to the United Kingdom to raise support to aid African Americans. Nathaniel Paul was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to the ex-slave Caesar Nero Paul. A member of the prominent Paul family of New England, he was brother of Thomas Paul. In 1827 he gave a speech celebrating the abolition of slavery in New York.

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