30 Facts About Marius Robinson

Marius Robinson was an American minister, abolitionist, and newspaper editor of the antislavery newspaper The Philanthropist and The Anti-Slavery Bugle.

Marius Robinson helped establish a school for African Americans in Cincinnati, Ohio while attending Lane Seminary.

Marius Robinson worked together with his wife Emily Rakestraw Robinson, to better the lives of African Americans.

In 1816, the Robinson family moved to Orville, Chautauqua County, New York.

Marius Robinson learned the bookbinding and printing trade at Merrill and Hastings in Utica, New York, beginning in 1823.

Around 1829, Marius Robinson found his personal beliefs aligned with those of the Second Great Awakening, which was led by Charles Grandison Finney.

Marius Robinson believed in the importance of good works and humanitarian reforms, which led to abolitionism and the anti-slavery movement.

Marius Robinson enrolled at the University of Nashville's five-year program in the fall of 1830.

Marius Robinson studied theology, and some of his teachers were suspicious of his liberal views.

Marius Robinson graduated with high honors in 1832, but he did not receive his diploma until he delivered a lecture on a test question, with approval by the North Alabama Presbytery.

Marius Robinson enrolled at Lane Seminary that taught Charles Grandison Finney's New School principles.

Marius Robinson was among the Lane students who were committed to abolitionism and were directly involved in practices to aid African Americans.

Marius Robinson was commissioned "to labor in and with the churches to arouse them to a sense of their responsibility in the institution of American slavery".

In 1836, Marius Robinson was hired by the antislavery newspaper The Philanthropist, which was established by the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.

Marius Robinson escaped and rode horseback with the forms for the paper, which he had published in Wilmington, Delaware.

Birney and Marius Robinson returned to the office in Cincinnati after a few days with no further threats or violence.

Marius Robinson spoke at the American Anti-Slavery Society in Ohio.

Emily remained in Cincinnati and taught while Marius Robinson worked the lecture circuit.

The mob then sliced Marius Robinson's leg, beat him, and tarred and feathered him.

Marius Robinson's voice gave out and poor health kept him bed-ridden for months.

Marius Robinson supported the positions of the eastern radical group of abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Edmund Quincy, and adopted the slogan "No Union with Slaveholders".

Marius Robinson supported women's rights and temperance and was against war and capital punishment.

Marius Robinson attended and reported on the national disunion convention held in Cleveland on October 28,1857, which had been called for by Garrison's newspaper The Liberator.

Marius Robinson operated a hat store in Salem and later was president of the Ohio Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

Marius Robinson was an active fund-raiser and speaker during the American Civil War.

Marius Robinson was an Underground Railroad agent, helping people escape slavery.

Marius Robinson married Emily Rakestraw, an abolitionist who defied her parents and went to Cincinnati to teach African Americans.

Marius Robinson had not met Emily's family prior to the marriage.

Marius Robinson gave an anti-slavery lecture in New Garden, Ohio, Emily's hometown and her parents warmed up to her new husband after hearing him speak.

Marius Robinson died in Salem, Ohio on December 9,1878.