Isaac Knapp

Isaac Knapp
Portrait of Isaac Knapp
Born	(1804-01-11)January 11, 1804 Newburyport, Massachusetts
Died	Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	printer and publisher
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Isaac Knapp (January 11, 1804 – September 14, 1843) was a printer and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography

Knapp was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Philip Coombs Knapp and Abigail Remmick; siblings included Abigail Knapp. In 1825 he was proprietor of the Essex Courant newspaper.

With his friend William Lloyd Garrison he produced the anti-slavery Liberator newspaper, 1831-1841. He also co-founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society. His printing office was located on Congress Street (circa 1831) and then on Cornhill.

Garrison and Knapp had a falling out around 1840, and Knapp left the Liberator. In a otherwise favorable eulogy written by Garrison and printed in the Liberator, Garrison implies Knapp became an alcoholic and that his death resulted from this.

Works issued by Knapp

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Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1837

• Constitution of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. 1832.

1836

• • 1837

1837

• (first published in 1789 in London)

1838

• , along with poems by George Moses Horton

1839

Catalogues

• • Titles listed: Abolition of the Slave Trade, Adams' Letters, Adams' Oration, Adin Ballou's Discourse, Anti-Slavery Catechism, Anti-Slavery Manual, Anti-Slavery Record, Archy Moore, Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery, Barrows on the Slave Question, Birney's Second Letter, Bourne's Picture, British Apprenticeships, Channing on Slavery, Channing on Texas, Charles Ball, Chloe Spear, Crandall's Trial, Discussion, Dissertation on Servitude, Dresser, Stones' Letters, &c., Enemies of the Constitution Discovered, Evils and Cure, Godwin on Slavery, Granville Sharp, Gustavus Vassa, Important Pamphlet, James Jackson, Jay's Inquiry, Juvenile Poems, Kentucky Address, Lemuel Haynes, Liberty, Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, Miss Beecher Reviewed, Miss Grimke's Appeal, Miss Grimke's Epistle, Mott's Sketches, Mrs. Child's Appeal, Mrs. Stewart's Productions, Objections Answered, Our Liberties in Danger, Phillis Wheatley, Rankin's Letters, Right and Wrong in Boston, Slave Produce, Slave's Friend, Smith's Bible Argument, Songs of the Free, Stanton's Remarks, Stewart's West India Question, Testimony of God Against Slavery, The Fountain, The Generous Planter, The Negro Pew, The Oasis, Thompson at Manchester, Thompson in America, Thompson in G. Britain, Thompson's Lectures and Debates, Valuable Documents, Vigilance Committee, Whittier's Poems, Wilberforce.

Further reading

• (mentions Knapp)

External links

• (digitized letters)

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