Person Page
Rowland Gibson Hazard
A Rhode Island textile manufacturer, Hazard maintained extensive business contacts in the South before his ambivalent anti-slavery alienated customers. He claimed that an 1841 trip to New Orleans in which he helped free a number of wrongfully imprisoned slaves was "the greatest effort of his life." In addition to entangling himself politically and economically with slavery, Hazard attempted to pass legislation curbing the corporate privileges of Rhode Island's railroads at the beginning of the 1850s.
Photos (0) Add Images
Places mentioned on this page
Connected Pages Add Page
There are no related pages for Rowland Gibson Hazard.
Links Add Link
There are no links about Rowland Gibson Hazard.
Share Rowland's Memorial page on Facebook
About this page
Anyone can contribute to this page. Please sign in or sign up—it's free.
There are no comments. Add Comment