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Abel Brown
Reverend Abel Brown was an American abolitionist who worked for the Underground Railroad. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1810, he died in 1844 after contracting encephalitis brought on by his ceaseless exertions to end slavery. Brown endured beatings, gunshots, and frequent death threats, but nonetheless continued publicizing his efforts to both aid fugitive slaves and to directly rescue them.
Brown grew up in a devoutly religious family whose pastor was Jonathan Edwards. From his earliest years, Brown was close to his older sister, Cynthia, who taught him that the treasures of this life come in the hereafter. When he was 11, his family moved to Madison County, New York and at age 19 Brown began teaching Sunday School in Fredonia in Chautauqua County, where his sister had moved. A year later he returned to Madison County, where he worked as a storekeeper and studied Theology at Hamilton College. He practiced rigorous self-denial and focused on school. At the close of his studies, his path as a Baptist minister was forged.
== Early ministry ==
His first cause was Temperance. At age 22 he returned to his native Springfield and preached nine sermons, and for the next three years he was a traveling preacher who devoted his ministry to children and proclaiming the evils of alcohol. Often, in his journal, he talked about denying himself, of sacrificing all for his Lord, and of his dream to work in some distant corner of the world as a missionary. The next year he went to Auburn, New York, and attempted to convert the village to his Temperance views. His naiveté and boldness drove him to call a public meeting during which he scolded the villagers about their abuse of alcohol. But when a private list he had made of villagers who abused alcohol was taken from him and made public, a mob assembled outside his hotel room prepared to take vengeance. Brown who had earlier been whipped by a grocery store owner was able to elude the mob and flee in a wagon to the nearly woods where he hid for the next 12 hours while the mob searched for him. It was not the last time his life was threatened.
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