Willis Hodges
Born: February 12, 1815
Died: September 24, 1890
Married: Sarah Ann Corprew Gray
Children: four
Willis Augustus Hodges was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, and political organizer who became prominent in Brooklyn, New York. Born to free parents in Virginia, Hodges became an outspoken advocate for enslaved African Americans during the Antebellum period, giving aid to the Underground Railroad in the North after a move to New York, and collaborating with such notable figures as William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and Frederick Douglass. He also published an antislavery newspaper, The Ram’s Horn. (Wikipedia:Willis Augustus Hodges)
See also:
- Encyclopedia Virginia: Willis A. Hodges