Beriah Green

American abolitionist (1795–1874) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Beriah Green Jr. (March 24, 1795 – May 4, 1874) was an American reformer, abolitionist, temperance advocate, college professor, minister, and head of the Oneida Institute. He was "consumed totally by his abolitionist views".[1]: 281  Former student Alexander Crummell described him as a "bluff, kind-hearted man," a "master-thinker".[2]: 49  Modern scholars have described him as "cantankerous",[2]: xv  "caustic, belligerent, [and] suspicious".[3] "He was so firmly convinced of his opinions and so uncompromising that he aroused hostility all about him."[4]: 32 

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Engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie (1860)