Nathaniel P. Rogers

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This article is about Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, the American abolitionist. For the English doctor, author, and lecturer, see Nathaniel Rogers.

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (June 3, 1794 – October 16, 1846) was an American abolitionist who served as editor of the anti-slavery newspaper Herald of Freedom

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Nathaniel Peabody Rogers was born in Plymouth, New Hampshire, studied at Dartmouth College, and practised law for some years. In 1838 he moved to Concord, N.H., in order to edit the Herald of Freedom, founded some three or four years earlier by the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society. In his editorial articles, he was noted for his impulsive, unaffected, and witty (sometimes sarcastic) style, and his descriptions of the natural landscape.

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Rogers was the subject of Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Herald of Freedom” and was also profiled in J. G. Whittier's Old Portraits and Modern Sketches (1850).

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  • Rogers, N.P. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers Concord, N.H.: John R. French, 1847.
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