Edmond Quincy V (1808–1877) was an American

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and reformer.

Biography

Edmund Quincy was born in

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on February 1, 1808, the second son of

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and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. His siblings included,

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, Eliza, Abigail, Maria, Margaret, and

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. He was an

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editor and also the author of a biography of his father, a romance, ''Wensley'' (1854), and ''The Haunted Adjutant and Other Stories'' (1885). Quincy graduated from

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, Andover, in 1823, and

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in 1827. In 1833, Quincy married Lucilla P. Parker after graduating from

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. In 1837, Quincy joined the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and was corresponding secretary (1844–1853). He became a member of the

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in 1838 and served as vice-president in 1853 and 1856–1859. In 1839, he became an editor of ''The Abolitionist'', one of the organs of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. From 1839 to 1856, he was a contributor to the ''

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'', edited by Maria Weston Chapman for the annual anti-slavery fairs. In 1844, he became an editor of the '' National Anti-Slavery Standard'', the organ of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He also edited '' The Liberator'' when

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was absent (e.g. in 1843, 1846 and 1847). Quincy was also active in the Non-Resistance Society which condemned the use of force in resisting evil, renounced allegiance to human government, and because of the anti-slavery cause, favored non-union with the American South. He, along Chapman and Garrison, published the '' Non-Resistant'' (1839–1840), which lasted only two years. In 1870, he was elected as a member of the

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. He was elected a member of the

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in 1875. He died in

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on May 17, 1877.Malone, Dumas, ed. 1935. ''Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VIII'', pp. 306–307. New York: Scribners.

References

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