In 1833, Forten helped William Lloyd Garrison and Robert Purvis form the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Their children were Robert Bridges Forten, Margaretta Forten, Harriet Forten Purvis, Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis, Charlotta Forten, William Deas Forten, Mary Theresa Forten, Thomas Willing Francis Forten and James Forten, Jr., who, with his brother Robert, succeeded his father in the family sailmaking business yup.

Forten was acquainted with many other anti-slavery proponents, including William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, and the orators and activists Wendell Phillips, Maria Weston Chapman and William Wells Brown.

Like her parents, brothers and sisters, Harriet Forten Purvis was active in anti-slavery groups in the city, including the interracial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

In addition, they raised Harriet's niece, Charlotte Forten Grimké, after her mother died.

In her later life, Harriet Forten Purvis lectured publicly against segregation and for expanded suffrage for all citizens.

Forten's paternal aunt Margaretta Forten worked in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society along with her sisters Harriet Forten Purvis and Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis.

Charlotte Forten Grimké helped her husband in his ministry at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C., organized a women's missionary group, and continued her " racial uplift " efforts.

* March 4 – James Forten, abolitionist.

Allen, Jones, and James Forten, a successful businessman and sail maker, were acknowledged leaders of the free black community in Philadelphia.

He married Charlotte Forten, who became known as an abolitionist and diarist.

Famous members included Theodore Dwight Weld, Lewis Tappan, James G. Birney, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster, Henry Highland Garnet, Samuel Cornish, James Forten, Charles Lenox Remond, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Robert Purvis, and Wendell Phillips.

During this period she wrote to abolitionists Garrison and Charlotte Forten, both to share news and to ask for aid with work and supplies.

James Forten ( September 2, 1766 – March 4, 1842 ) was an African-American abolitionist and wealthy businessman.

James Forten was born in Philadelphia, spending almost all of his life in what would become the Society Hill village.

Although never elected to political office, and effectively disenfranchised, James Forten was a shrewd political operator.

Forten used his wealth from the industry to advocate for temperance, women's suffrage, and above all, equal rights for African Americans.

Forten believed Blacks should work to improve their situation in the United States and should be granted equal protection under the law.

Forten and Reverend Allen also worked together to establish the first Convention of Color in 1817.

Forten did not believe African Americans should leave their " own " land and therefore stood against the agenda and activities of the American Colonization Society.

Forten was an integral part of many protests against the Society.

Just before Abraham Camp spoke about wanting to leave America, Forten led a protest against the American Colonization Society and acted as chair of the protest held at Bethel Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

:" In 1817, Forten and Bishop Richard Allen of the African Methodist Episcopal Church organized 3, 000 black Philadelphians to speak out against the activities of the American Colonization Society, which was working to establish a colony outside the United States for African Americans.

James Forten was one of the important Black leaders who were entirely against any emigration movements.

Forten had not always stood against emigration and the American Colonization Society plans to "... send free and freed blacks to Africa.

Later Forten changed his mind, however.

Forten was born free in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he also attended the African School, run by abolitionist Anthony Benezet, which was established by Quakers for free black children.

After his father died, Forten started working at age seven to help out his mother and sister, first as a chimney sweep and then as a grocery-store clerk.

By age nine, Forten left school to work full-time.

At the age of 15, during the Revolutionary War, Forten served on the privateer Royal Louis, where he invented a device to handle ship sails.

After the war, Forten was apprenticed as a sailmaker.

In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.

Cronenberg has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences.

Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).

In 1793, William Godwin, who has often been cited as the first anarchist, wrote Political Justice, which some consider to be the first expression of anarchism.

However, he was opposed to the idea of converting atheism into a new form of religion or theology, and cited many " new theologians " such as William Hamilton, Paul Van Buren, Thomas Altizer and Gabriel Vahanian, who promoted this error:

An accurate account of the Victorian process by William Bishop, one of the last London quill dressers, is recorded in the ' Calligrapher's Handbook ' cited on this page.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

This happened in the majority opinion by Justice William O. Douglas in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 484 ( 1965 ) which cited the amendment as implying a belief that an individual's home should be free from agents of the state.

Such exemplary saints include martyrs, confessors of the Faith, evangelists, or important biblical figures such as Saint Matthew, the Lutheran theologian and martyr to the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered founder John Wesley are among many cited as Protestant saints.

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

William Papian of Project Whirlwind cited one of these efforts, Harvard's " Static Magnetic Delay Line ", in an internal memo.

Among the books that the band has cited as being stylistically influential include William H. Gass's In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.

He cited to this effect William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice published in 1600 ( Act IV, sc.

When Máeldub died, Aldhelm was appointed in 675, according to a charter of doubtful authenticity cited by William of Malmesbury, by Leuthere, Bishop of Winchester ( 671 – 676 ), to succeed to the direction of the monastery, of which he became the first abbot.

* William Smeathers well known frontiersman, Smeathers served on first grand jury of Court of Quarter Sessions at Hartford, 1803 ; credited as the first settler of Yellow Banks, now present day Owensboro, KY and cited on Kentucky historical marker # 1548 in Hartford, KY.

Seventy years later, when the U. S. Supreme Court banned prayer from the public schools in 1963, the Edgerton Bible Case was one of the precedents cited by Justice William Brennan.

As a lyricist, Harvey has cited numerous poets, authors and lyricists as influences on her work including Harold Pinter, T. S Eliot, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ted Hughes and contemporaries such as Shane MacGowan and Jez Butterworth.

In an opinion segment of New Scientist magazine published in August 2009, reporter Andy Coghlan cited William Rees of the University of British Columbia and epidemiologist Warren Hern of the University of Colorado at Boulder, saying that human beings, despite considering themselves civilized thinkers, are " subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion ... an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.

This work is cited by William James in his lecture on Neurology and Religion at the beginning of The Varieties of Religious Experience ( footnote 4 ).

William Hales ( 1747 Ireland .. 1831 ), who published " A New Analysis of Chronology " in three volumes ( 1809 – 1812 ), cited the chronology of the people of India as dating the epoch of creation to 6174 BC.

By the end of the 16th century, the celebrated English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare, cited the important export and notoriety of the Madeiran Malvasia castes: in Richard III the Duke of Clarence, the brother of King Edward IV selected a death by drowning in a barrel of Madeira.

The plays of William Shakespeare are another frequently cited example of the role played by a uniform title in the library catalog.

He was a contemporary of William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, and his works are cited by Richard de Fournival, Gerard of Abbeville and Thomas Aquinas.

Chepstow Castle was founded by William fitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, in 1067, and its Great Tower, often cited as the oldest surviving stone fortification in Britain, dates from that time or shortly afterwards.