Cassius Marcellus Clay. Born in 1810, Clay defied his slave-owning and influential Kentucky family when he became an abolitionist during his student days at Yale. A speech by William Lloyd ...

was named after a Kentucky slave owner turned abolitionist. The original Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903), nicknamed Cash, was the son of Kentucky Revolutionary War veteran, politician and slave ...

When heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after converting to Islam, he stated that his birth name was “a slave name,” adding, “I didn’t choose it and I don’t want ...

The second attempt was an ambush by the Turner brothers, whose father was a proslavery politician ... Herman Heaton Clay, named his son Cassius Clay in honor of the abolitionist.

Both of Cassius’ parents were from the Southern landed gentry, making the family among the wealthiest landowners in the state. At Yale, Cassius Clay heard a speech by the famed abolitionist ...

MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius Clay's connections to Coles County during the Mattoon Rotary Club meeting on July 21. Sterling ...

Cassius Clay was ... of the Republican Party. Clay attended Transylvania University and then graduated from Yale College in 1832. While at Yale, he heard abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison ...

I realize I’m spitting ... he was named. Cassius Marcellus Clay, 1810-1903, was a Kentucky planter, politician and newspaper publisher who, at enormous risk, was a devoted abolitionist in ...

Goodwin reminds us that Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. and his father were named for a Kentucky abolitionist who freed slaves he inherited and paid them wages. Neither he nor Cabell want us to find ...

Most people know the stories about Henry Clay and his cousin Cassius M. Clay of White Hall ... His grandson lived there and was a well-known politician. The grandson was called Cassius Marcellus ...

The adoption of a resolution denouncing all those who did not support DOUGLAS as a disorganizers, was a camouflet that dismayed the politicians ... triumph. CASSIUS M. CLAY spoke here, on the ...

was named after a Kentucky slave owner turned abolitionist. The original Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903), nicknamed Cash, was the son of Kentucky Revolutionary War veteran, politician and ...