Henry Moxley (1809-1878) was an African-American businessman, religious leader and activist in Buffalo, New York. Born into slavery in Virginia in 1809, Moxley escaped and settled in Buffalo in 1832. He worked at various job and became a barber opening his own shop in 1839. Moxley became a deacon of the A.M.E. Zion church and was a principal organizer the 1843 National Convention of Colored Men which was held in Buffalo. It was reported in the Buffalo Republic newspaper that on October 3, 1850 Henry Moxley was in attendance and elected Vice President, along with others, during a meeting of colored citizens in which resolutions were passed against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. In June 1867 Moxley, along with other parents, argued before the School Committee of the Common Council that the