David Ruggles was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1810. He believed that abolitionists should not just philosophize about the day slavery would end, but strive to help all the victims of human bondage. At the age of eighteen he opened a grocery shop in New York in order to further the anti-slavery movement growing in the Northeast. The grocery shop circulated books and Anti-slavery publications for African-Americans who were denied access to the New York public libraries. In addition to his anti-slavery book store, he served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He helped to bring at least six hundred enslaved people to freedom. His support for abolition made him one of the most hated abolitionists in New York.
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