…n, NY Arthur Tappan May 22, 1786, Northampton, MA – July 23, 1865, Brooklyn, NY Evangelical Reformers, Businessmen. Brooklyn Heights residents. The Tappan Brothers were New England reformers spurred to action by an evangelical impulse. Like a number of merchants, they worked in Manhattan but lived in Brooklyn Heights. They originally favored colonization, and Arthur paid for a man named Abdul Rahman to travel to Liberia. But they modified t…