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Jeremiah Thompson (1784–1835) was a 
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1784 births 1835 deaths Abolitionists from New York City American Quakers Quaker abolitionists English abolitionists English emigrants to the United States English Quakers Place of death missing 19th-century American merchants {{England-bio-stub
New York
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merchant
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, ship owner, Quaker
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, officer in the New York Manumission Society
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(dedicated to freeing slaves). He was co-founder in 1817 of the famous Black Ball Line together with five other men (four of whom were also Quakers
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) including Isaac Wright. He emigrated to the United States
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from his native Yorkshire
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, England
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in 1801 at the age of seventeen.
References
*Stephen Fox, ''Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships'', Harper Collins (2003), , pp. 3–16Page at Neptune's Needle - Database of American Maritime History
1784 births 1835 deaths Abolitionists from New York City American Quakers Quaker abolitionists English abolitionists English emigrants to the United States English Quakers Place of death missing 19th-century American merchants {{England-bio-stub