Lewis Temple

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A statue of Lewis Temple in New Bedford, Massachusetts
A statue of Lewis Temple in New Bedford, Massachusetts

Lewis Temple (1800 – 18 May 1854) was a blacksmith, abolitionist, and inventor. Born in slavery in Richmond, Virginia, he moved to the whaling village of New Bedford, Massachusetts during the 1820s. In 1848 he invented a type of "Toggling harpoon" that is sometimes called "Temple's Toggle".

[edit] References

  • http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/13152/kjelfshvj;saLgblASgbiflABiusb
  • Gary L. Frost. "Lewis Temple." Article in Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. African American Lives (Oxford University Press, 2004), 803–804. ISBN:0195160193.
  • Kathryn Grover. The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). ISBN:1558492712.
  • Sidney Kaplan. "Lewis Temple and the Hunting of the Whale." The New England Quarterly 26 (March 1953): 78–88.



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