David Ruggles

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Focusing on David Ruggles' significant yet often overlooked role in the early abolitionist movement, this biography highlights his contributions as an activist, writer, and hydrotherapist. Ruggles secured freedom for over six hundred former enslaved individuals, including Frederick Douglass, and mentored prominent figures like Sojourner Truth. As a founder of the New York Committee of Vigilance, he championed practical abolitionism, advocating for civil disobedience and self-defense to protect the rights of self-emancipated individuals and free blacks from kidnapping.