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former slave, a journalist, poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th-century Brazil. Victoria Woodhull: 1838 1927 United States: suffragette organizer, women's rights leader Frances Willard: 1839 1898 United States
Jane Addams (1860–1935) – American, national chairman of Woman's Peace Party, president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Ruth Adler (1944–1994) – feminist, and human rights campaigner in Scotland [ citation needed ]
Generally speaking, freedom fighters are people who use physical force to cause a change in the political and or social order. Notable examples include uMkhonto we Sizwe in South Africa, the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution, the Irish Republican Army in Ireland and Northern Ireland, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in Eritrea, the Mukti Bahini in Bangladesh Liberation War, and ...
Flee North is a biography of Thomas Smallwood (1801–1883), a man who helped hundreds of African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad.The author, Scott Shane, makes the claim that Smallwood was the first to coin the term "underground railroad" in a letter published in 1842.
The Slavins announced the Fight for Freedom goal is to raise $1 million, and they will match up to $500,000 in donations. “In the Philippines alone, 500,000 kids were trafficked in 2022 ...
The British promised freedom to enslaved people who left their Patriot masters to side with the British. In New York City, which the British occupied, thousands of refugee enslaved people migrated there to gain freedom. The British created a registry of people who had escaped slavery, called the Book of Negroes. The registry included details of ...
“Every generation has to earn it, fight for it, defend it in the battle between autocracy and democracy, between the greed of a few, and the rights of many.”
Instead, I stayed for one month to document my people's fight for freedom, and witness their pain. Reflecting on my time, in arguably the “safest” part of the West Bank, 50 miles from the Gaza ...