Richard D. Webb
Richard Davis Webb (1805–1872) was an Irish publisher and abolitionist.
Life
Webb was born in 1805. In 1837, he was one of three founding members, with James Haughton and Richard Allen, of the Hibernian Antislavery Association. This was not the first antislavery association but it was acknowledged to be the most active and considered the most ardent abolitionists in Europe.[1][2] Allen served as the secretary of this association.
Webb married Hannah Waring and they had four children Alfred, Richard, Deborah and Anne. Webb and his two sons Alfred and Richard were regular correspondents with the American abolitionist. William Lloyd Garrison.[3]
Webb was one of the few Irish delegates at the 1840
When
Webb was notable in Douglass's regard for the arguments that he and Webb had. Douglass felt that white abolitionists would prefer to be hypocritical than be racist and would try not to disagree with him face to face. Webb however showed no such false regard and they argued as equals in a way the Douglass hoped would be a precursor of the relationships that might exist across the races when slavery ended in America.[6]
Webb wrote The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown, 1861
He died in 1872.[7]
References
- S2CID 145068657.
- ^ Hinks, Peter P.; John R. McKivigan; R. Owen Williams (2007). Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition p373. p. 796.
- ^ The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume 6, Page 56. Retrieved 24 July 2014
- ^ The proceedings of the World's Temperance Convention p48-49. Richard Barrett Jun. 1846. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
- ^ Ann Phillips, wife of Wendell Phillips, a memorial sketch, 1886. Retrieved 24 July 2014
- ^ a b Frederick Douglass in Ireland: the Dublin Edition of His Narrative, Patricia J. Ferreira, 2001. Retrieved May 2009
- OL 1046702M.
External links
- Media related to Richard D. Webb at Wikimedia Commons