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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The author of Uncle Tom's cabin was a fictional account of slave life and demonstrated emotion amongst the black people. This influenced anti-slave movements.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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promimnent amerian abolitionist and american social reformer. Editor of the Abolitoinist newspaper "The Liberator" and one of the founders of the American slavery society. Into equality for all
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Denmark Vesey
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almost started the largest slave rebellion in 1822 but was stopped by informants who told slave-owners of the plan. He was hanged.
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Nat Turner
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A slave that revolted and went on a murder spree with a couple other slaves killed 60 virginians and ended up hanged.
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Sojourner Truth
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Also known simply as “Isabella,” she held audiences with her deep, resonant voice and the religious passion with which she condemned the sin of slavery.
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Theodore Dwight Weld
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a preacher against slavery 1834. He is known for organizing an eighteen- day debate on slavery, Weld and his fellow “Lane Rebels” spread across the Old Northwest preaching the antislavery gospel. In all seriousness Weld also assembled an important propaganda pamphlet, "American Slavery as It Is" (1839).
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Frederick Douglass
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Previously a slave and then became a free man. He started writing books (his biography) about african american slavery and its experiences to spread awareness of slaverly and its cruelty. He was also of course an abolistionist. He fought and overpowered his own slave master. He believed in total equality. Douglass worked closely withWilliam Lloyd Garrison to promote abolitionism in the 1830s.
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Elijah P. Lovejoy
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Known as a martyr for the anti-slave movement
His paper for abolishment of slavery was stopped when his printing press was destroyed |
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The Liberator
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a paper started by William Lloyd Garrison it was written to abolish slavery. 3/4 of the subscribers were black and some freed black slaves even wrote for the paper.
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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Founded in 1833 right around when the British abolish slavery in the west indies. This society was dedicated to abolishing slavery in the states. Garrison was one of the founders.
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David Walker
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launched a private war against slaveholders
wrote Walker's "Appeals To Colored Citizens"(1829) to the worlds which criticized slavery he used the idea of liberty and equality and the Declaration of Independence to attack white america |
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Liberty Party
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political abolitionists formed the Liberty party in 1840, the Free Soil party in 1848, and eventually the Republican party in the 1850s. In the end, most abolitionists, including Garrison, followed the logic of their beliefs and supported a civil war as the price for emancipation.
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