Granville Sharp was an English scholar and philanthropist, noted as an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Granville was apprenticed to a London draper,...
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Discover how a daring escape and 1772 court case challenged Britain's stance on slavery and set off a global abolitionist movement.
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New York Manumission Society, early abolitionist group (founded 1785) that worked to end the slave trade in New York, to ban slavery, to gradually...
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Liberty Party, U.S. political party (1840–48) created by abolitionists who believed in political action to further antislavery goals.
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Charles Sumner was a U.S. statesman of the American Civil War period dedicated to human equality and to the abolition of slavery. A graduate of Harvard Law...
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The Liberator, weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years (January 1, 1831–December 29, 1865).
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Samuel Cotton was an American antislavery activist and spokesman for the eradication of contemporary slavery in Mauritania and Sudan.
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Frances E.W. Harper was an American author, orator, and social reformer notable for her poetry, speeches, and essays on abolitionism, temperance,...
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Adolf Ludwig Follen was a German political and Romantic poet, an important founder and leader of radical student groups in the early 19th century.
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Clotel, novel by William Wells Brown, first published in England in 1853. Brown revised it three times for publication in the United States—serially and in...
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