Charles
Lenox Remond was
born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1810. He joined the Anti-Slavery
Society and in 1838 became its first African-American lecturer.
An outstanding orator, Remond spoke at public meetings in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania. In 1840 Remond went
on a lecture tour of Europe and while in England attended the World's
Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
During the Civil War Remond recruited
black soldiers for the Union Army in Massachusetts. After the war
he worked as a Boston street light inspector and a clerk in the Boston
Customs House. Charles Lenox Remond died in Massachusetts in 1878.
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