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Edmond was born on February, 1 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Не was the second son of Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864, member of Congress, mayor of Boston (1823 - 1828), and president of Harvard, and of Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy.
After preparation for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets, 1817-1823, he entered Harvard College, graduating with high honors in 1827 and receiving a master's degree in 1830.
Edmund was a prominent member of the Non-Resistance Society, formed in 1839, he abjured all recourse to force in resisting evil, renounced all allegiance to human government, and, in the interests of abolition, agitated disunion between the North and the South. He was associated with William Lloyd Garrison and Maria Weston Chapman
in conducting the Non-Resistant, a paper which gave expression to these doctrines from 1839 to 1842. In 1839 he also became an editor of the Abolitionist, an organ of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and from 1839 to 1856 was a chief contributor to the Liberty Bell, edited by Mrs. Chapman for the annual Boston anti-slavery fairs. In 1844 he became an editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, the journal of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He also frequently conducted the Liberator, as in 1843, 1846, and 1847, when its editor, Garrison, was absent. In addition to his work for these journals he contributed to the New York Tribune, the Albany Transcript, the Independent, and others, and his trenchant writings on slavery, called by Lowell "gems of Flemish art", if collected, would make many volumes and furnish a valuable contribution to the history of the anti-slavery struggle. He also frequently conducted the Liberator, as in 1843, 1846, and 1847, when its editor, Garrison, was absent.
Apart from his activities as an abolitionist, Quincy was also well known among literary people as a writer of fiction and biography. His Wensley, a Story without a Moral (1854; reprinted in Wensley and Other Stories, 1885), a sympathetic study of early American society, reveals a cultivated mind, a genial humor, and a graceful style, and was called by Whittier "the most readable book of the kind since Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance". In The Haunted Adjutant and Other Stories (1885) are collected some of his best short stories. With the help of his sister, Eliza Susan Quincy, he wrote an excellent biography of his father, Life of Josiah Quincy (1867), and edited Speeches Delivered in the Congress of the United States: by Josiah Quincy (1874). He died in Dedham, Massachusetts on May 17, 1877.
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Quotations: “What has the North to do with slavery? What have we to do with it, indeed! When it encircles us like the air we breathe — as invisible but as ever near us — when it makes our laws, controls our interests, appoints our rulers, sets a price upon our heads, demands the sacrifice of our free utterance, disfranchises in one half the States the citizens when the Constitution has made free everywhere…. ”
In 1837 Edmund Quincy was a member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, of which he was corresponding secretary from 1844 to 1853; and in 1838 he joined the American Anti-Slavery Society, of which he was vice-president in 1853 and 1856-1859. He was also a prominent member of the Non-Resistance Society. Quincy was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recording secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College.
In spite of the strenuous participation in active life which his devotion to the abolitionist cause entailed, Edmund Quincy remained to the end the old-fashioned scholar and gentleman, his exalted and uncompromising idealism being tempered by wit and humor, friendliness and simplicity, cultivation and refinement.
On October 14, 1833, Edmund married Lucilla P. Parker. They had five children.
