Beriah Green

Engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie (1860)

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  "obdurate,"[3] "caustic, belligerent, [and] suspicious".[4] "He was so firmly convinced of his opinions and so uncompromising that he aroused hostility all about him."[5]: 32 

  1. ^ Perkins, Linda M. (1987). "Review of Abolition's axe : Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black freedom struggle, by Milton C. Sernett". History of Education Quarterly (2): 281–282. doi:10.2307/368480. JSTOR 368480.
  2. ^ a b Sernett, Milton C. (1986). Abolition's axe : Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black freedom struggle. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815623700.
  3. ^ Sernett, Milton C. (2004). Abolition's Axe. Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. ix. ISBN 0815623704.
  4. ^ Friedman, Lawrence J. (1980). "The Gerrit Smith Circle: Abolitionism in the Burned-over District". Civil War History. 26 (1): 18–38, at p. 21. doi:10.1353/cwh.1980.0009. S2CID 144487199.
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