Wendell Phillips was born on November 29,1811, in boston Massachusetts. He was, in fact, a descendant of the city's first mayor. He graduated from Harvard College in 1831, and Harvard law school in 1833. Phillips could easily have lived a good life of status and wealth but instead was urged and convinced by his wife, Ann Terry Green Phillips, to give that up in order to join and assist in leading the anti-slavery movement. Becoming a very important leader of the radical abolitionists, Phillips authored abolitionists pamphlets, wrote editorials for his friend William Lloyd garrison's news paper The Liberator, and gave numerous speeches for the cause, which were esteemed by many who heard them. After Phillips and garrison founded the Anti-Slavery Society, Phillips was known as a boston patrician or the: "abolitionist's golden trumpet.".
He was not only admired for his ability to speak. He was also admired by his physical appearance. Biographer Ralph Korngold once said that Phillips was :.
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"Six feet tall, deep-chested, broad-shouldered and with a soldierly bearing.
His complexion was ruddy. His reddish-brown hair waved back on a high, .
domed forehead. His gray-blue eyes, small and piercing, had a kindly twinkle. .
His aqualine nose gave force and dignity to his countenance. His well-formed .
lips, which he was in the habit of compressing, and his firm rounded chin spoke of resolution."(Jim Powell).
A college friend of his Dr. Buckingham, even remarked that he was "the most beautiful person I had ever seen, handsome, indeed in form and feature.a young Apollo"(Powell net).
The physical features of Phillips reflected well his moral and political idealism.
His powerful appearance reflected his ability and command over people in his speeches while features like the kindly twinkle in his eye showed moral acceptance and love for every individual. Phillips reflected his ethical ideals throughout his speeches, thus indicating his moral and political ideals to be very similar.
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