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Signature. Edward Coles (December 15, 1786 – July 7, 1868) was an American planter and politician, elected as the second Governor of Illinois (1822 to 1826). From an old Virginia family, Coles as a young man was a neighbor and associate of presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, as well as, secretary to President James ...
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Edward Coles (1786-1868) was a private secretary to James Madison, the second governor of Illinois, and an abolitionist. He was born at Enniscorthy, the family home in Albemarle County. His father, Colonel John Coles, was a slaveholder and a friend of prominent Virginians, including Thomas Jefferson. Edward was well educated by private tutors ...
22 de dic. de 2021 · ENTRY. Edward Coles (1786–1868) SUMMARY. Edward Coles was the second governor of Illinois (1822–1826) and a lifelong opponent of slavery. Born in Albemarle County, he inherited a dozen slaves from his father and, against his family’s wishes, decided to free them.
1 de dic. de 2014 · 01 December 2014. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Issue Section: Book Reviews. Born into a wealthy slaveholding Virginia family in 1786, Edward Coles came to regard slavery as a moral problem during college. He battled the institution thereafter, eventually witnessing its collapse during the Civil War.
Abolitionist Edward Coles Edward Coles railed against slavery throughout his life. Born in Virginia and inheritor of a plantation with slaves, Coles put his plantation up for sale in 1809 and took the slaves with him so as to set them free once he reached non-slave territory.
Coles later became the second governor of Illinois, the loyal personal secretary to President James Madison, and a close antislavery associate of Thomas Jefferson. In Crusade Against Slavery, Bruce G. Carveth and his coauthor detail Coles's remarkable life story and his role in the struggle to free all slaves.
18 de may. de 2011 · Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom. Edward Coles was a wealthy heir to a central Virginia plantation, an ardent emancipator, the second governor of Illinois, the...
