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John Neal

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John Neal


Born
in Portland, Maine, The United States
August 25, 1793

Died
June 20, 1876

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John Neal was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s in the United States and Great Britain, championing American literary nationalism and regionalism in their earliest stages. Neal advanced the development of American art, fought for women's rights, advocated the end of slavery and racial prejudice, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement. ...more

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“A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.”
John Neal

“The persecuted of to-day become the persecutors of to-morrow.”
John Neal, Rachel Dyer : A North American story

“We should remember that his faith after all, was the faith, not so much of the man, as of the age he lived in, the race he came of, and the life that he led.”
John Neal, Rachel Dyer : A North American story