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Henry Ward Beecher
United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)
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John Brown
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
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Frederick Douglass
United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
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William Lloyd Garrison
United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
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Arthur Tappan
United States abolitionist (1786-1865)
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Sojourner Truth
United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
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Harriet Tubman
United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
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Theodore Dwight Weld
United States abolitionist (1803-1895)
