Lundy, Benjamin (1789-1839), was an American editor and a pioneer of the antislavery movement in the United States.
In 1815, Lundy organized the Abolitionist Union Humane Society in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He organized other antislavery groups and published The Genius of Universal Emancipation, the National Enquirer, and other periodicals. Lundy lectured and traveled widely, seeking places for free blacks. He influenced John Quincy Adams’s efforts to prevent the expansion of slavery, when Adams was a congressman. Lundy was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, on Jan. 4, 1789. He died on Aug. 22, 1839.
