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RARE “Social Activist" Elihu Burritt Cut Signature COA:
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Up for sale "Social Activist" Elihu Burritt Clipped Signature. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and

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Elihu Burritt (December

8, 1810 – March 6, 1879) was an American diplomat, philanthropist and

social activist. He was a prolific lecturer, journalist and writer, who

traveled widely in the US and Europe. Elihu Burritt was born December 8, 1810,

in New Britain, Connecticut.

He was a descendant of William and Elizabeth Burritt from Stratford,

Connecticut. He first worked as a blacksmith. As an adult he was active as a lecturer in many

causes, opposing slavery, working for temperance, and trying to

achieve world peace. In

the early 1840s Burritt began to tour New England, speaking against war and promoting brotherhood. His

sobriquet "Learned Blacksmith" arose from a period when he earned a

living as a blacksmith in Worcester, Massachusetts. He founded a weekly paper,

the Christian Citizen, in Worcester in 1844. By this time, Burritt

had emerged at the head of a group of radical pacifists within the American Peace Society,

and took on George Cone

Beckwith, who supported a gradualist attitude on multiple fronts.

There was a confrontation in 1845. Burritt was given the chance to take over as

editor of The Advocate of Peace, the organ of the American Peace

Society, but Beckwith employed delaying tactics. When Burritt came into post at

the beginning of 1846, he renamed the publication as The Advocate of

Peace and Universal Brotherhood. But when Beckwith had mustered enough

support, in May, the decision was reversed. The infighting cost the Society its

President, Samuel Elliott Coues, who resigned. In the summer of 1846, the

disillusioned Burritt left the cautious Beckwith, and went to England. He

stayed initially with Joseph Sturge. Setting off

in July on a walking tour, he went to Worcester, the namesake town, to speak. He travelled widely around a new

home in Harborne, then a rural village, largely on foot. He was sympathetic to the

industrial and political culture of Birmingham, and became a friend of many of its leading

citizens, so that what he wrote about it was largely positive. During his time in Birmingham he

lived in a house which he named New Britain Villas. It was later home to Edward

Chitham, who also wrote a book on the Black Country. Burritt was actively involved the

local community, taking part in the committee for the rebuilding of St. Peter's Church,

Harborne. During a trip abroad in 1846–47, Burritt was touched by

the suffering of the Irish peasantry.

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