1. George Bradburn was an American politician and Unitarian minister in Massachusetts known for his support for abolitionism and women's rights.
18 Facts About George Bradburn
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George Bradburn attended the 1840 conference on Anti-Slavery in London where he made a stand against the exclusion of female delegates.
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George Bradburn first took a trade as a machinist until he decided to pursue further studies at the age on nineteen.
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George Bradburn continued his education at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
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George Bradburn became associated with the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and he brought forward related radical legislation.
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George Bradburn led a movement which repealed a marriage law.
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George Bradburn travelled first class on the ship Roscoe on the May 7,1840.
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George Bradburn was able to visit various places including Blenheim Palace, Eaton Hall, Stratford on Avon, Oxford University and Warwick Castle.
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George Bradburn was later able to call on these experiences in lectures later in life.
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The portrait of George Bradburn which is shown at the top of this article and in Haydon's picture of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery convention was completed in a small room at the Freemasons hall where the convention was held.
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George Bradburn commented that he felt that he had been given "too much severity or sharpness," but Haydon assured him that he looked "revolutionary" when giving his speeches.
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George Bradburn made time after a visit to France to complete a third sitting on August 3,1840.
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George Bradburn then visited Newcastle, Scotland and Ireland, visiting people he had met at the convention including the Irish Nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell and Lady Byron, the mathematician.
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From 1846 to 1849, George Bradburn edited the, "Pioneer and Herald of Freedom" in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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George Bradburn was able to use his trip to London as the basis of entertaining and informative lectures.
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George Bradburn made good friends there and returned to visit ever summer for the next twenty years.
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George Bradburn took a job in a customs house which had been organised by his friend Samuel Chase, but he sadly missed his ability to work.
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At George Bradburn's funeral in 1880, Lysander Spooner read a eulogy and was a pallbearer.