About Jeremiah Thompson
Lived 1784 – 1835 (aged 50–51). Jeremiah Thompson was an English and British merchant and abolitionist.
Jeremiah Thompson (1784–1835) was a New York merchant, ship owner, Quaker, officer in the New York Manumission Society (dedicated to freeing slaves). He was co-founder in 1817 of the famous Black Ball Line together with five other men (four of whom were also Quakers) including Isaac Wright. He emigrated to the United States from his native Yorkshire, England in 1801 at the age of seventeen.
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Who was Jeremiah Thompson?
English abolitionist
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Jeremiah Thompson was born in 1784.
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Jeremiah Thompson died in 1835.
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Jeremiah Thompson was a merchant and abolitionist.
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Jeremiah Thompson was English and British.
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