| 词条 | Jesse Burton Harrison |
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Jesse Burton Harrison (1805–1841) was an American anti-slavery lawyer and author. Early lifeJesse Burton Harrison was born in 1805 in Lynchburg, Virginia. His father, Samuel Jordan Harrison (1771–1846), was a well-to-do tobacco merchant. Jesse was educated at Hampden–Sydney College and later at the Harvard Law School. CareerHarrison delivered a series of literary addresses[1] and then, in the late 1820s, began publicly supporting anti-slavery thought. He published an appeal on behalf of the American Colonization Society in 1827. Most importantly, he wrote a response to Thomas Roderick Dew's proslavery essay, Review of the Debates in the Virginia Legislature, 1831-2.[2] He later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. His wife was the former Frances Anne Brand (d. 1884). Death and legacyHarrison died of yellow fever in 1841 in New Orleans. He was the father of Burton Harrison, a Confederate official and lawyer, and the grandfather of Fairfax Harrison and Francis Burton Harrison.[3] References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Harrison|first1=Jesse Burton|last2=Harrison|first2=Burton Norvell|editor=Fairfax Harrison|title=Aris sonis focisque : being a memoir of an American family, the Harrisons of Skimino and particularly of Jesse Burton Harrison and Burton Norvell Harrison|url=https://archive.org/details/arissonisfocisqu00harr|year=1910}}. That address is conveniently reprinted in Six Addresses in Letters and Science in Virginia (Roanoke, 1917). {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Jesse Burton}}2. ^{{cite book|title=Review of the slave question : extracted from the American Quarterly Review, Dec. 1832, based on the speech of Th. Marshall, of Fauquier, showing that slavery is the essential hindrance to the prosperity of the slave-holding states : with particular reference to Virginia, though applicable to other states where slavery exists|location=Richmond, VA|date=1833|url=https://archive.org/details/reviewofslaveque01harr/page/n3|first=Jesse Burton|last=Harrison}} 3. ^{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VyBnpnlNCigC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=jesse+burton+harrison&source=bl&ots=hcv_9VxOo8&sig=QMC9Oix-enCG7K6zcfVEuGeCWE0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_TXDU_rUDpCsyATp5oC4Dg&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=jesse%20burton%20harrison&f=false| title=All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in the Old South }} 9 : 1805 births|1841 deaths|Writers from Lynchburg, Virginia|Harvard Law School alumni|Hampden–Sydney College alumni|American abolitionists|19th-century American lawyers|Virginia lawyers|Lawyers from New Orleans |
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