David Nelson (abolitionist)
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David Nelson (abolitionist)
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David Nelson was an American Presbyterian minister, physician, and antislavery activist who founded Marion College and served as its first president. Marion College, a Protestant manual labor college, was the first institution of higher learning chartered in the state of Missouri. Born in Tennessee, Dr. Nelson had once been a slaveholder but became an "incandescent" abolitionist after hearing a speech by Theodore D. Weld. Unpopular with proslavery groups in northeastern Missouri, Nelson stepped
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Minister, educator, physician (1793–1844)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nelson_(abolitionist)
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2024-01-08T04:34:21Z
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