Stephen Smith (abolitionist)

Stephen Smith (1797–1873) was an African American businessman, philanthropist, preacher, real estate developer, and abolitionist.

Smith and Whipper would go and have huge success in the Lumber, coal, Philadelphia real estate, railroad cars, and investments in the stock market.

Smith was one of the wealthiest 19th-century black Philadelphians, holding this title alongside Frederick Douglass, James Forten, Robert Purvis, Rev.

[6] Smith attended national colored conventions of the free black people held in New York State in 1834 and in Philadelphia in 1835.

[5] After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Whipper and Smith persuaded 15,000 African Americans to make their way to a new start in Canada.

Men of Color Civil War Recruitment Broadside (1863), signed by Smith
Men of Color Civil War Recruitment Broadside (1863), written by Frederick Douglass and signed by Smith