A statue of Lewis Temple in New Bedford, Massachusetts

Lewis Temple (1800 – 18 May 1854) was a blacksmith, abolitionist, and inventor. Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Born in slavery in Richmond, Virginia, he moved to the whaling village of New Bedford, Massachusetts during the 1820s. This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1848 he invented a type of "Toggling harpoon" that is sometimes called "Temple's Toggle". The toggling harpoon is an ancient Weapon and Tool used in Whaling to impale a Whale when thrown

References

• http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/13152/kjelfshvj;saLgblASgbiflABiusb
• Gary L. Frost. "Lewis Temple. " Article in Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. African American Lives (Oxford University Press, 2004), 803–804. ISBN:0195160193.
• Kathryn Grover. The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). ISBN:1558492712.
• Sidney Kaplan. "Lewis Temple and the Hunting of the Whale. " The New England Quarterly 26 (March 1953): 78–88.