Samuel Ringgold Ward — 'The Black Daniel Webster' — Tours as Abolitionist Orator

Samuel Ringgold Ward, a Congregationalist minister and newspaper editor, was celebrated as the most eloquent Black orator of his generation. Frederick Douglass called him 'the ablest man we have.' After the Fugitive Slave Act he helped rescue Jerry Henry in Syracuse, fled to Canada, then England, publishing his autobiography in 1855 while lecturing against slavery to British audiences.