Charles Lenox Remond
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Charles Lenox Remond (1810–1882) was an African-American abolitionist and military organizer during the American Civil War.
Remond was born free in Salem, Massachusetts. He was an anti-slavery orator who spoke at public meetings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. In 1838 the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, chose him as one of its agents. As a delegate from the American Anti-Slavery Society , he went with William Lloyd Garrison to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. The young Remond had a reputation as an eloquent lecturer and is reported to have been the first black public speaker on abolition (Merrill V 273).
In 1842 at meetings held by Remond and his sister in New Brighton Massachusetts. Redmond stated "When the world shall learn that "mind makes the man"-- that goodness; moral worth, and integrity of soul, are the true tests of Character, then prejudice against caste and color, will cease to be."
Remond recruited black soldiers in Massachusetts for the Union Army during the Civil War, particularly for the famed 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry. He was also active in recruiting for the U.S. Colored Troops.
After the war, he worked as a clerk in the Boston Customs House, and as a street lamp inspector.
