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  2. Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The American beginning of abolitionism as a political movement is usually dated from 1 January 1831, when Wm. Lloyd Garrison (as he always signed himself) published the first issue of his new weekly newspaper, The Liberator (1831), which appeared without interruption until slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865, when it closed.

  3. Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement

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    The influence of slavery in the United States was on the rise as Rankin’s letters circulated throughout the Ohio River Valley. The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, ensured that slavery would ...

  4. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish refused to return them back to the United States. More freedom seekers traveled through Texas the following year. [103] Enslaved people were emancipated by crossing the border from the United States into Mexico, which was a Spanish colony into the nineteenth century. [104] In the United States, enslaved people were considered property.

  5. Thomas Garrett - Wikipedia

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    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. For his efforts, he was threatened, harassed, and assaulted.

  6. Anthony Benezet - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.

  7. Frederick Douglass's 4th of July reading still resonates in ...

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    On Worcester Common, Dzifah Hiatsi, 54, who is homeless and sleeps just a few feet away, takes his turn reading Frederick Douglass’ famous Fourth of July address, “What to the Slave is the ...

  8. Abolitionism - Wikipedia

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    Abolitionist constitutionalism is a line of thinking which invokes the historical view of the Constitution of the United States as an abolitionist document. It calls for an appeal to constitutionalism and progressive constitutionalism. [ 105 ]

  9. Category:Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Abolitionism in the area now covered by the United States, including abolitionism there in the era prior to the American Revolutionary War and abolitionism in areas held by the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.