1. Isaac Tatem Hopper was an American abolitionist who was active in Philadelphia and New York City in the anti-slavery movement and protecting fugitive slaves and free blacks from slave kidnappers.
16 Facts About Isaac Hopper
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Isaac Hopper was co-founder of Children's Village with 23 others.
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Isaac Hopper moved to New York City in 1829 to run a Quaker bookstore.
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Isaac Hopper married Sarah Tatum Hopper in 1795 and together they had ten children, including notable abolitionist Abigail Hopper Gibbons, and a notable grandson DeWolf Hopper.
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Isaac Hopper became a Hicksite Quaker and a follower of Elias Hicks.
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Isaac Hopper became an active and leading member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, whose members frequently worked to protect the rights of African Americans, as well as to seek the end of slavery in the United States.
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In time, Isaac Hopper became known in Philadelphia as a friend and adviser to blacks in all emergencies.
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Isaac Hopper was an overseer of the Negro School for Children in Philadelphia, which was founded by the early abolitionist Anthony Benezet before the Revolutionary War and operated through the nineteenth century.
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Isaac Hopper served as a volunteer teacher in a free school for African-American adults.
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Isaac Hopper was one of the founders and the secretary of a society for the employment of the poor; a volunteer prison inspector; a member of a fire company, and a guardian of abused apprentices.
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Isaac Hopper transacted much business for the Society of Friends.
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In 1829, Isaac Hopper moved his family to New York to run a bookstore established by the Hicksite Quakers.
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Isaac Hopper became the treasurer and book agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York.
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Isaac Hopper's married daughter, Abigail Hopper Gibbons, by then in New York, founded the Women's Prison Association, to work for prison reform.
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Isaac Hopper founded an asylum for women prisoners who had been released, to help with their re-entry to society, which she named for her father as the "Isaac T Hopper Home".
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Isaac Hopper frequently visited the New York state capital of Albany to represent the association and to address the legislature.