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Stephen S. Foster

Released
Full name:Stephen Symonds Foster
Date of birth:17. 11. 1809
Date of death:08. 09. 1881
Age:71† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Massachusetts
Support
Abolitionism Anti-War
Stephen S. Foster

Biography

Stephen S. Foster was a radical abolitionist and nonresistant — a "come-outer" who repeatedly rose in New England churches, uninvited, to denounce their complicity with slavery, and who wrote the fierce pamphlet "The Brotherhood of Thieves." For these disruptions he was arrested many times, jailed, and often violently thrown from the meetinghouses. (Recorded as Stephen Symonds Foster)

Case

Charges: Disturbing public worship.
Arrested: May 1842
Incarcerated: May 1842
Sentence: $3 fine and prosecution costs; imprisonment until paid
Convicted: Yes