Redpath, James, 1833-1891

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Dates:
Birth 1833-08-24
Death 1891-02-10
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

Journalist, educator, and abolitionist.

From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861 [microform] (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 173183825

From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455130

American journalist.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Henry C. Bowen, 1871 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616506

James Redpath was a journalist and activist who joined the Kansas "free state" campaign and befriended John Brown; toured Haiti and worked for Haitian diplomatic recognition on the part of the United States; wrote anti-capital punishment tracts for his own line of cheap paperbound books for the Union military during the Civil War; served as a frontline war correspondent for the New York Tribune; organized a post war lecturing bureau with clients such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Mark Twain; advocated for Reconstruction even as the Republicans were abandoning it under Rutherford B. Hayes; and advocated for Irish nationalism, women's suffrage, and organized labor as editor of Redpath's Illustrated Weekly and the North American Review.

From the description of James Redpath letter, 1883. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 311868110

Proprietor of the Boston Lyceum Bureau who handled sales of Mark Twain's book Roughing it.

From the description of Correspondence, April 24, 1872. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 41295644

Abolitionist, reformer and author. Redpath was appointed commissioner of emigration in the United States by Haitian president Geffrard in 1859. He founded the Haitian Emigrant Bureau in Boston and New York, and simultaneously published a newspaper, The Pine and Palm (May 1861-), "devoted to the interests of freedom and of the colored races in America." He later became the Haitian Consul at Philadelphia and was instrumental in obtaining recognition of Haitian independence by the U.S. government.

From the description of James Redpath correspondence, 1861-1862. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164233

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Subjects:

  • Publishers and publishing
  • Slavery
  • Abolitionists
  • African Americans
  • Blacks
  • Freedmen
  • Letterhead
  • Private libraries
  • Temperance
  • Wabaunsee, Kansas. History

Occupations:

  • Abolitionists
  • Authors
  • Journalists
  • Journalists

Places:

  • Pennsylvania--Philadelphia (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • Pennsylvania--Philadelphia (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Haiti (as recorded)
  • Dominican Republic (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Haiti (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • Dominican Republic (as recorded)
  • Haiti (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • Canada (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • Haiti (as recorded)
  • Ireland (as recorded)
  • Canada (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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