Theodore S. Wright

Theodore S. Wright

Theodore S. Wright (1797-1847) was an African-American abolitionist and minister. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island to free parents--his mother was American, his father from Madagascar. Before 1833, he became minister of New York's Colored Presbyterian church. He was a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1837, at a colored convention meeting, he opposed a resolution advocating black self-defense as "un-Christian," but by 1843 his views had sufficiently changed that he supported Henry Highland Garnet's call at Buffalo for a slave uprising (it was opposed by Frederick Douglass and narrowly defeated). Wright also acted as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in New York.


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