Samuel Ringgold Ward, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Ringgold Ward

American newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1817

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: editor, journalist, publisher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Samuel Ringgold Ward (October 17, 1817 – c.
1866) was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor and Congregational minister. He was author of the influential book: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada and England, written after his speeches throughout Britain in 1853.
It enabled him to raise funds for the Anti-slavery Society of Canada where many escaped slaves from the USA were arriving in the 1850s.