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  2. William Lloyd Garrison - Wikipedia

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    William Lloyd Garrison. William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth ...

  3. Harriet Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    Children. Joseph and Louisa. Relatives. John S. Jacobs (brother) Harriet Jacobs[a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". [5]

  4. List of abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    Abolitionism. U.K. U.S. Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90; Temporary Slavery Commission; 1926 Slavery Convention; Committee of Experts on Slavery

  5. Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia

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    Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 [1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. [2] [3] After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, [4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.

  6. Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    suffragist. author. editor. diplomat. Signature. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

  7. Thomas Garrett - Wikipedia

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    Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. Occupation (s) Abolitionist, Underground Railroad station master. Years active. 1813–1865. Thomas Garrett (August 21, 1789 – January 25, 1871) was an American abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. He helped more than 2,500 African Americans escape slavery.

  8. Olaudah Equiano - Wikipedia

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    Joanna Vassa. Olaudah Equiano (/ əˈlaʊdə /; c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (/ ˈvæsə /), was a writer and abolitionist. According to his memoir, he was from the village of Essaka in modern southern Nigeria. [1][2] Enslaved as a child in West Africa, he was shipped to the Caribbean and sold to a ...

  9. List of African-American abolitionists - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic slave trade; Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power ...