“I would not have a slave to till my ground, to carry me, to fan me while I sleep and tremble when I wake, for all the wealth that sinews bought and sold have ever earned.”

About Amos Adams Lawrence

Philanthropist • American

Amos Adams Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American philanthropist, businessman, and abolitionist from Massachusetts. He played a crucial role in the settlement of Kansas by anti-slavery emigrants during the...