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25 de mar. de 2014 · William Lambert (1817-1890) Abolitionist and civil rights activist William Lambert was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1817, the son of a manumitted father and a freeborn mother. As a young man Lambert was educated by abolitionist Quakers. Twenty-three year old Lambert arrived in Detroit, Michigan in 1840 as a cabin boy on a steamboat, and ...
William Lambert (1817 – April 28, 1890) was a prominent African-American citizen and abolitionist in Detroit during the mid to late 19th century. With a formal education and a background in the anti-slavery movement from a young age he would become a significant figure in Detroit's local black community and the city at large for ...
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- April 28, 1890 (aged 72–73), Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- 1817, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
- Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit), Detroit
27 de ene. de 2016 · William Lambert and George De Baptiste, free-born black men, used the underground railroad to help slaves escape to British Canada. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.
17 de ene. de 2022 · On Jan. 17, 1886, Black abolitionist William Lambert revealed that he was part of a secret order called, “African American Mysteries: Order of the Men of Oppression.” He made the declaration in a Detroit Tribune newspaper article.
19 de feb. de 2020 · William Lambert. The story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was recently turned into the biographical film “Harriet”. The film, which chronicles Tubman’s efforts to help enslaved...
An African American Leader of Detroit's Anti-Slavery Movement. By Evelyn Leasher. Before the Civil War Detroit had a small but active African American population. One of the most active African American men of the time was William Lambert, who in addition to his public activities, ran a thriving tailoring and dry cleaning business.
He was a Black abolitionist and businessman. William Lambert was born free in Trenton, New Jersey. At least one of his parents was free at his birth. Crucial to his later success, Lambert was taken under the wing of a Quaker schoolmaster.
