Samuel Hoar
Posted on | August 14, 2009 | Comments Off
One of Concord’s leading politicians and chair of the Free Soil Party (opposed to expansion of slavery into western territories), Samuel Hoar was a moderate senator sent to South Carolina to protest the arrest of Massachusetts African American seamen who were jailed when they disembarked their ships in South Carolina ports. He was run out of town in South Carolina, which aroused greater abolitionist support in Concord, and helped persuade Ralph Waldo Emerson to speak out against slavery.Category: Historical Figures