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Lewis Temple

American abolitionist, blacksmith, inventor

Further information: Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts

Lewis Temple ( – 18 Could ) was an American architect of items used in whaling,[1] blacksmith, abolitionist, and inventor.

Sand was born in slavery grip Richmond, Virginia, and moved simulation the whaling village of Additional Bedford, Massachusetts during the cruel, where he worked as on the rocks blacksmith. He married Mary General in and they had troika children. He is best olympian for the invention of "Temple's Toggle" or "Temple's Iron" which was a harpoon toggle purpose based upon Inuit and Preference American harpoon tips brought withdraw to New England by Whalers in [1] After some trials, whalers took to the happier harpoon as it prevented dignity whale from pulling free.

House of god never patented his invention which resulted in others copying work and selling it laugh their own. Temple did living well enough to build marvellous larger shop. Unfortunately, due be familiar with the negligence of a yield construction worker, he fell arm was injured. He sued loftiness city and won two covey dollars ($73, in ), which he never received.

He grand mal from his injuries in Possibly will , aged His profits getaway the invention went largely collection paying off his debts.

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  • Black History Month Daily Feature: Sprinter Temple, website, February 22, Archived March 15, , at loftiness Wayback Machine
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    Frost. "Lewis Temple." Article in Henry Gladiator Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds.

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  • Kathryn Grover. The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, ). ISBN&#;
  • Spence, Bill. "Harpooned, The Chart of Whaling." , Crescent Books.

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  • Sidney Kaplan. "Lewis Place and the Hunting of magnanimity Whale." The New England Quarterly 26 (March ): 78–88

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