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Theodore Parker was born on august 24, 1810 Lexington massachusetts
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He was the youngest child of a large family and his grandfather was the leader of the militia
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He went to college and he fought for equality, he went to school at havard university
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In 1832, he started his own academy in Watertown, Massachusetts
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He was engaged to to his future wife
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He studied german theology, he spoke latin, greek, hebrew, german, chaldee, syriac Arabic, coptic and Ethiopic. He studed these languages at Harvard University
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Also Theodore Parker he was a preacher 1834
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He also did not like the Mexican war as it attempted to expand slavery in Mexico 1837
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Theodore Parker married Lydia Dodge Cabot, she was they youngest child of a wealthy of a Unitarian family
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He served as the abolitionist minister, he favored racial integration of Boston schools and churches and this made him become an abolitionists
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In 1838 Theodore Parker overheard from Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his landmark Divinity school address and he found his place in the budding Transcendentalist movement
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In 1841 Theodore Parker spoke at an ordination service, he wanted to seize this opportunity to say more about his ideas that this was the message that jesus preached and it was very important
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In 1843 parker, with the help of a friend went to europe for a year. because of this his view changed from theology to social reforms.
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In 1845, he began preaching on Sunday mornings to large audiences at the Melodeon Theater in Boston
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He fought against many laws that were being passed to help slavery
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In 1850 parker turned all his efforts towards stopping a law being passed, the fugitive slave act was what parker and his abolitionist tried to stop
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He saw slavery as an achievement to great industrial democracy, he lead boston to oppose the fugitive slave act of 1850.
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His political affiliations were with the free soil party and in 1852 he voted for John P. Hale
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In 1854, he was indicted for harboring a fugitive and obstructing justice, adn the charges were eventually dropped
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He died in Floruence Italy
