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Abolitionist Movement Important People
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11/03/2009

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David Walker
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African American author of Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, which called for an immediate end to slavery.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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White leader of radical abolition movement based in boston; founded The Liberator in 1831 to work for an immediate end to slavery.
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Fredrick Douglass
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African American abolitionist leader who spoke eloquently(strongly)for abolistion in the US and Britain before the Civil War.
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Sojourner Truth
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Abolitionist and women's rights advocate before the Civil War; as a former slave, she spoke effectively to white audiences on abolition issues.
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Harriet Tubman
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"conductor" on the Underground Railiroad, which helped slaves escape to freedom before the Civil War.
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Elijah P. Lovejoy
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Edited the St.Louis observer newspaper. Denounced slavery and called for gradual emancipation. (shot)
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Nat Turner
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African American preacher who led a slave revolt in 1831; captured and hanged after the revolt failed.
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