Charles Lenox Remond (1810–1873) was an abolitionist and orator. Remond was born in Massachusetts to free black parents and was influenced by their abolitionism. In 1832, Remond began working for William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator. He later toured as an anti-slavery lecturer with Frederick Douglass, but after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Remond became impatient with the non-violent Garrisonian approach to abolition. After the Civil War, Remond pushed for civil rights for African Americans, further alienating him...