(This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 18...)
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1852 edition by Charles H. McDonell, Rochester.
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He was born on February 26, 1798 in Westbury, Long Island, New York, United States, the son of Edmund and Catherine (Willets) Post and the descendant of Richard Post who removed to Southampton on Long Island from Lynn, Massachussets, about the middle of the seventeenth century. He removed in 1823 to the town of Scipio, Cayuga County, New York.
He was educated in the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends.
At first a successful farmer, he later went into the drug business, in which he remained for thirty years. When the Fugitive-slave Law was passed, his house became a well-known station on the "Underground Railroad. " Hundreds of negroes owed their liberation to him and to his wife, who in this, as in all his other reforms, supported him valiantly.
In 1848 he was converted to spiritualism by Margaret Fox and her sister. He and his wife and three others were among the earliest converts and the first to meet regularly at the Fox home. These five, and especially Post, did more, perhaps, than any other single group toward furthering the spiritualist movement, giving the sisters advice and encouragement and even protecting them from bodily harm, when the first public investigations were held. A spirit message from his mother is supposed to have played some part in directing the course of the movement: "Isaac, my son, thy feeling is not exactly right towards low spirits, as thee calls them. A reformation is going on in the spirit world, and these spirits seek the company of honest men like you. It will do them great good and thee no harm".
He became noted as a writing medium and in 1852 published a volume entitled Voices from the Spirit World, being Communications from Many Spirits, by the hand of Isaac Post, Medium. He died in 1872.
(This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 18...)
In 1845 he and his wife, also a Quaker, felt that membership in the Society of Friends interfered with their activity as abolitionists, and they resigned. In 1848 he was converted to spiritualism.
He had a mind quick and vigorous in the perception and acceptance of new ideas and ready to acknowledge them regardless of consequences. That he was widely known in his community and was respected for his convictions, even by his enemies, is a tribute to his personal qualities in view of the unpopular ideas and reforms for which he stood.
Quotes from others about the person
Frederick Douglass in a letter read at the funeral said of him that "I never knew a man more just, simplehearted, charitable, unselfish, and full of good works. "
He married Hannah Kirby. She died in 1827, leaving two children who survived her only a few years. On September 18, 1828, he married Amy Kirby, a sister of his first wife.
