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Tappan,
Arthur, (b. May 22, 1786, Northampton, Mass.,
U.S.--d. July 23, 1865, New Haven, Conn.), American philanthropist who used much
of his energy and his fortune in the struggle to end slavery.
After a devoutly religious upbringing,
Tappan moved to Boston at the age of 15 to enter the dry goods business. Six
years later he launched his own firm in Portland, Maine, and then in 1809 moved
the business to Montreal. Tappan struggled with the business both in Canada and,
after the outbreak of the War of 1812, back in the United States. But in 1826 he
started a new company in New York City. This business, a silk-importing firm,
was successful, and Arthur and his brother Lewis became wealthy. The Panic of
1837 forced the Tappans to close their doors, but the brothers founded another
lucrative enterprise when they opened the first commercial credit-rating service
in the 1840s.
Arthur Tappan early and consistently
used his wealth to support missionary societies, colleges, and theological
seminaries. Conservative in his moral outlook, he founded the New
York Journal of Commerce in 1827 to provide a newspaper free of
"immoral advertisements." He also backed movements for temperance and
stricter enforcement of the Sabbath and against the use of tobacco.
It was the Abolitionist crusade,
however, to which Tappan devoted himself during the latter part of his life. He
helped found several Abolitionist journals, and he was founder and first
president (1833-40) of the American Anti-Slavery
Society. Tappan at first backed the efforts of the Abolitionist William
Lloyd Garrison but broke with him and the American Anti-Slavery Society
when Garrison insisted upon linking abolition with other reforms.
Tappan then created a new organization,
the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
He advocated trying to achieve abolition through the political process and
backed the Liberty Party in the 1840s. With the passage of the Fugitive Slave
Law of 1850, however, both of the Tappan brothers became more radical. Arthur
Tappan openly declared his determination to disobey the law, and he supported
the Underground Railroad.
Old age limited Tappan's activities as
the slavery controversy heated during the 1850s, but he did live to see the
Emancipation Proclamation fulfill much of his life's work.
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