Minister and abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher is born in Litchfield, Connecticut. The son of Calvinist minister Lyman Beecher, Henry became a staunch abolitionist and helped arm abolitionist forces in "Bleeding Kansas" by financing and shipping rifles to Kansas, the rifles known as "Beecher's Bibles."
Year
1813
Date of Event
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