Charles Lenox Remond (1810–1873) was an abolitionist lecturer born in Salem, Massachusetts. A supporter of William Lloyd Garrison, Remond was an agent for Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. He and his younger sister, Sarah, were noted anti-slavery orators, and Charles was the first Black person to address a legislative body in the United States—the Massachusetts General Court. During the Civil War, he recruited Black soldiers in the north and in Canada for the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, as well as for other African American units. After the Civil War, he continued to campaign for Black civil rights until his death from tuberculosis in 1873.
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