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Nathaniel Paul (died July 1839) was a Baptist minister and abolitionist who worked in
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,
Wilberforce Colony Wilberforce Colony was a colony established in the year 1829 by free African American citizens, north of present-day London, Ontario, Canada. It was an effort by American Blacks to create a place where they could live in political freedom. When Am ...
in Canada, and traveled to the
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to raise support to aid
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. He was a brother of Thomas Paul. In 1827 he gave a speech celebrating the abolition of slavery in New York. His comments included the statement: Paul was involved in fundraising efforts for
Wilberforce Colony Wilberforce Colony was a colony established in the year 1829 by free African American citizens, north of present-day London, Ontario, Canada. It was an effort by American Blacks to create a place where they could live in political freedom. When Am ...
in Canada, a settlement that included African Americans fleeing violent attacks in
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, Ohio (the colony was named after British abolitionist statesman
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). He went to the United Kingdom (England, Ireland, and Scotland) to gain support and stayed there from 1832 until 1835. On January 14, 1832, the abolitionist newspaper, ''The Liberator'', published a letter from Paul about his trip to England; According to historian John Leverton, Paul returned in 1835 "with over $7,000 in collections, but his expenses totaled over $8,000, leaving the Colony with a substantial debt."Leverton, John
''Wilberforce Colony''
from ''Lucan 125 Souvenir Booklet 1871-1996''.
Paul left the Colony shortly after his return from the United Kingdom and returned to Albany, where he died in 1839.Pease, William H. and Jane H. Pease. ''Black Utopia: Negro Communal Experiments in America'' (The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963), pp. 50-53, 57-61.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paul, Nathaniel 1839 deaths Year of birth uncertain Religious leaders from Albany, New York African-American abolitionists