About Jacob Post
Lived 1774 – 1855 (aged 80–81). Jacob Post was a writer and abolitionist.
Jacob Post (1774–1855) was an English Quaker Move your cursor to identify Post or click icon to enlarge In 1840 Post's portrait featured in a painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
Works include Extracts from the Diary of Frederick James Post and other Manuscripts, with a Memoir (1838) Some Popular Customs amongst Christians questioned and compared with Gospel Precepts and Examples (1839) On the History and Mystery of (those called) the Sacraments; shewing them to be Jewish Institutions... (1846) The Bible: the Book for All (1848) Popular Memoir of W. Penn (1850) A Brief Memoir of George Fox... for the Information of Strangers (1854) The Lord's Supper its origin and history (1854)
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Who was Jacob Post?
British writer
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Jacob Post was born in 1774.
When did Jacob Post die?
Jacob Post died in 1855 in Islington.
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Jacob Post was a writer and abolitionist.
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