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  2. The Liberator (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp. Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").

  3. William Lloyd Garrison - Wikipedia

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    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 partially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.

  4. Gaspar Yanga - Wikipedia

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    But the danger became evident when Nyanga's group began to plunder the region's haciendas. Many historians agree that the land occupied by these apalencados (i.e. palenque-dwellers) was the area surrounding the Cofre de Perote, the Sierra de Zongolica, and the area of Omealca, in what is now the state of Veracruz.

  5. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]

  6. Genius of Universal Emancipation - Wikipedia

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    The newspaper was originally Elihu Embree's The Emancipator in 1820, before Lundy purchased it the following year. Lundy's contributions reflected his Quaker views, condemning slavery on moral and religious grounds and advocating for gradual emancipation and the resettlement of freed slaves in other countries, including Haiti, Canada, and Liberia.

  7. James Forten - Wikipedia

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    James Forten (September 2, 1766 – March 4, 1842) was an American abolitionist and businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A free-born African American, he became a sailmaker after the American Revolutionary War. Following an apprenticeship, he became the foreman and bought the sail loft when his boss retired.

  8. Simón Bolívar - Wikipedia

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    He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America. Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards but lost both parents as a child. Bolívar was educated abroad and lived in Spain, as was common for men of upper-class families in his day.

  9. Abolition Riot of 1836 - Wikipedia

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    [11] Even the Liberator, the anti-slavery newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison, expressed mild disapproval, calling the incident "unjustifiable" but "not unpardonable." [12] Small and Bates were never recaptured; [12] they eventually made it to Canada, [13] where slavery had been abolished three years before. None of the rioters were ...