James Madison Bell was an African-American poet, orator, and political activist who was involved in the abolitionist movement against slavery. Bell was born in Gallipolis, Ohio on April 3, 1826. He lived in Ohio most of his life although he briefly resided in Canada and California before eventually returning back to Ohio. Bell was called […]

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