Nathaniel W. Depee
{{Short description|American activist and abolitionist(1812–1868)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nathaniel W. Depee
| image = Nathaniel W. Depee, 1872.png
| caption = Depee's portrait (c. 1900) from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
| other_names = N. W. Depee
| birth_date = 1812
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = 19 June 1868
| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| burial_place = Eden Cemetery
| occupation = Activist, abolitionist, merchant tailor
}}
Nathaniel W. Depee (1812 – June 19, 1868) was an American activist, abolitionist, and merchant tailor.{{Cite web |editor-last=de Vera |editor-first=Samantha |title=Nathaniel W. Depee |url=https://coloredconventions.org/black-mobility/delegates/nathaniel-w-depee/ |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=The Fight for Black Mobility: Traveling to Mid-Century Conventions, Colored Conv |language=en-US}} He was active in the Underground Railroad, and in Black politics in Philadelphia in the 1830s through 1860s.{{Cite book |last=Still |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KD9LAAAAYAAJ |title=Still's Underground Rail Road Records |date=1886 |publisher=William Still |page=612 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Newman |first=Richard S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtfrpVFcbTwC |title=Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love |last2=Mueller |first2=James |date=2011 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=978-0-8071-3993-6 |language=en}}
Biography
Nathaniel W. Depee was born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.{{Cite web |title=N.W. Depee, Member of the Acting Committee |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.2018.89.28 |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution}}
In 1845, Depee helped to form the Colored American National Society, an organization that helped connect the Colored Conventions Movement and William Whipper's American Moral Reform Society. In 1855, Depee served as a delegate at the 1855 National Colored Convention in Philadelphia.
Depee was one of five members of the acting committee for the Vigilant Association of Philadelphia, others included William Still, Jacob C. White, Passmore Williamson, and Charles Wise.{{Cite book |last=Switala |first=William J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZebVPh0mMW0C |title=Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania |date=2008-08-21 |publisher=Stackpole Books |isbn=978-0-8117-4912-1 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Sanders |first=Nancy I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqkuXWDrzSEC |title=Frederick Douglass for Kids: His Life and Times, with 21 Activities |date=2012-06-01 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1-61374-357-7 |pages=54 |language=en}} His home at 334 South Street was listed as one of the Underground Railroad stops.
He died on June 19, 1868, in Philadelphia, and was buried initially at Lebanon Cemetery, and later re-interred to Eden Cemetery.
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Category:Underground Railroad people
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Category:African-American abolitionists
Category:American abolitionists
Category:Burials at Eden Cemetery (Collingdale, Pennsylvania)
Category:Burials at Lebanon Cemetery
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Category:Activists from Philadelphia
Category:African-American upper class
Category:19th-century African-American businesspeople
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