Isaac Knapp

Isaac Knapp
Portrait of Isaac Knapp
Born (1804-01-11)January 11, 1804
Newburyport, Massachusetts
Died September 14, 1843(1843-09-14) (aged 39)
Boston, Massachusetts[1]
Occupation printer and publisher
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Isaac Knapp (January 11, 1804 September 14, 1843)[2] was a printer and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography

Knapp was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Philip Coombs Knapp and Abigail Remmick; siblings included Abigail Knapp.[3] In 1825 he was proprietor of the Essex Courant newspaper.[4][5]

With his friend William Lloyd Garrison he produced the anti-slavery Liberator newspaper, 1831-1841.[6][7] He also co-founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society.[8][9] His printing office was located on Congress Street (circa 1831) and then on Cornhill.[10][11]

Garrison and Knapp had a falling out around 1840, and Knapp left the Liberator. In a otherwise favorable eulogy written by Garrison and printed in the Liberator, Garrison implies Knapp became an alcoholic and that his death resulted from this.[12]

Works issued by Knapp

Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1837
1836
1837
1838
1839

Catalogues

References

  1. "DIED - In this city". The Liberator (Boston, Massachusetts). 22 Sep 1843. p. 3. Retrieved 24 August 2014 via Newspapers.com.
  2. ""Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch, entry for Isaac /Knapp/.". FamilySearch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  3. Walter McIntosh Merrill (1956). "Passionate Attachment: William Lloyd Garrison's Courtship of Helen Eliza Benson". New England Quarterly 29. JSTOR 362183.
  4. Arthur Mason Knapp (1909), The Knapp Family in America, Boston: Fort Hill Press, pp. 28–29, OCLC 9109492
  5. "Essex Courant", Chronicling America (U.S. Library of Congress)
  6. "Mr Isaac Knapp says that he has been deprived of his interest in the Liberator unjustly". Boston Post. 17 Dec 1841. p. 2. Retrieved 24 August 2014 via Newspapers.com.
  7. Berry, Faith (2006). From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans. A&C Black. p. 92. ISBN 9780826418142. Retrieved 24 August 2014. [Knapp's] gambling debts caused Garrison's supporters to buy out Knapp's financial interest [in The Liberator]. He later claimed fraud and published one issue of Knapp's Liberator, attacking Garrison, on January 8, 1842.
  8. William Lloyd Garrison (1971). The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-52660-0.
  9. "Isaac Knapp". National Cyclopedia of American Biography 2. 1892.
  10. Boston Directory, 1831, Garrison & Knapp, editors and proprietors Liberator, 10 Merchants Hall, Congress Street
  11. Boston Directory, 1835, Garrison & Knapp, 31 Cornhill
  12. Garrison, William Lloyd (29 September 1843). "Letter to the Editor". The Liberator. p. 2. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  13. Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, ed. (2007). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33480-1.
  14. Charles L. Nichols, "Notes on the Almanacs of Massachusetts" (PDF), Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 22 (1): 15-134. 1912

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