Background
Jesse Burton Harrison was born in 1805 in Lynchburg, Virginia. His father, Samuel Jordan Harrison (1771–1846), was a well-to-do tobacco merchant.
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Jesse Harrison
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Jesse was educated at Hampden–Sydney College and later at the Harvard Law School.
Career
Harrison delivered a series of literary addresses and then, in the late 1820s, began publicly supporting anti-slavery thought. He published an appeal on behalf of the American Colonization Society in 1827. Most importantly, he wrote a response to Thomas Roderick Dew"s proslavery essay, Review of the Debates in the Virginia Legislature, 1831-1832.
He later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Harrison died of yellow fever in 1841 in New Orleans.
