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Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech
Sojourner Truth delivered her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at a statewide women’s rights convention in Ohio.
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Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, a radical pamphlet that attacked slavery and the colonization movement, was published in Boston. It called for the abolition of slavery by any means.
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Isabella Van Wagener became Sojourner Truth
Former slave Isabella Van Wagener assumed the name Sojourner Truth and began her career as an abolitionist.
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John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, with allies including five black men, led an armed abolitionist raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal in Virginia. Two days later the US Army, led by Colonel Robert E. Lee, stormed Harpers Ferry and captured Brown.
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Rev. Lovejoy murdered
Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy became the abolitionist movement’s first martyr when he was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois.
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Sarah Parker Remond
Sarah Parker Remond (ca. 1826–1894) was an abolitionist, orator, and, later, a medical doctor. Born in Massachusetts to free parents, Remond was the sister of Charles Lenox Remond, a well-known black abolitionist. Though not as famous as her brother, Sarah Parker Remond was also active in the anti-slavery movement, lecturing with her brother and others, including Susan B. Anthony. She also embarked on a lecture tour of Ireland and England in 1859, making her one of the only African American women to act as an anti-slavery orator in Europe...
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Abraham Lincoln
The mythologizing of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), which began almost immediately after his assassination, placed him in the pantheon of American heroes alongside George Washington. But behind the legend of “Honest Abe”—country raconteur, log cabin president, compassionate father figure, and, finally, national martyr—was a shrewd legal mind, astute politician, and adept student of human psychology. Though he lost his first senatorial election to Stephen Douglas in 1858, the Republican Lincoln outmaneuvered Douglas during the campaign by...
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an internationally known abolitionist, writer, and orator. Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838 and settled in Massachusetts. He was drawn to the anti-slavery movement after reading William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator. Douglass attended anti-slavery meetings where he related his experiences in slavery. He subsequently wrote a narrative of his life that became a best seller. Despite his status as a fugitive slave, Douglass lectured widely to promote the...