Philip Alexander Bell
American journalist and abolitionist
About Philip Alexander Bell
Lived 1808 – 1889 (aged 80–81). Philip Alexander Bell was an American journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist, known for Suffrage.
Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889) was an American newspaper editor and abolitionist.
Born in New York City to an African American family, he was educated at the African Free School and became politically active at the 1832 Colored Convention. He began his newspaper career with William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
Bell died on April 24, 1889.
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American journalist and abolitionist
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Philip Alexander Bell was born in 1808 in New York City.
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Philip Alexander Bell died on 24 April 1889 in San Francisco.
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Philip Alexander Bell was a journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist.
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Philip Alexander Bell was known for Suffrage.
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