Inspirational Quotes by Gamaliel Bailey (American Journalist)

Gamaliel Bailey (1807–59) was an American physician and journalist. He left his vocation as a physician to become an abolitionist journalist and a leader of the abolition movement before the American Civil War.

Born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, Bailey graduated from the Jefferson Medical College-Philadelphia. He taught physiology at the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio; there, attending the Lane Debates on Slavery stirred him to become an ardent abolitionist. He left his career to become an abolitionist, journalist, editor, and publisher, working primarily in Cincinnati, and Washington, D.C.

Bailey edited The National Era, established by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Its circulation and political and moral influence attracted such contributors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Theodore Parker. Bailey published Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a serial in 1851–52 in The National Era.

South Carolina State University’s Stanley Harrold wrote Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (1986.)

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