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Oil portrait of Jonathan Blanchard around
age 25.
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Jonathan Blanchard was a pastor, educator,
and a social reformer. He was a combatant for abolition for over thirty
years. Though connected with many figures of historical note, his strong
character and unflinching efforts for equality and reform put him at odds
with countless individuals, causing one to write that he was “too outspoken
to be looked upon by the majority of the Church with cordial sympathy.” One
of his biographers noted that he was a “minority of one.”
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