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| Horace Mann | "Father of the American Schools" |
| Frederick Douglas | once a slave who wrote autobiography and started his own paper |
| Dorthea Dix | Helped reform prisons and set up a hospital for the mentally ill |
| Isabella VanWagener | Sojourner Truth's real name |
| Sojourner Truth | Active in the AME Church and spoke out against slavery |
| Brook Farm | Members of the community shared possessions and set aside time for social and literary activities |
| Paul Cuffe | Wealthy owner of a fleet of ships which transported volunteers back to Africa |
| Thomas Gallaudet | Opened school for the deaf in Connecticut |
| James Fortin | Petitioned Congress for emancipation |
| Theodore Weld | Kicked out of seminary for being too vocal against slavery; later moved to Oberlin College |
| Absalom Jones | One of the men who organized the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Mother Ann Lee | Founded the Shakers who sang and danced as part of their religion |
| Grimke | These sisters published ant-slavery pamphlets and made speeches against slavery and for women's rights |
| William Garrison | Published the newspaper |
| John Russman | Stared Freedom's Journal (the 1st African American Newspaper) |
| Francis Asbury | Pioneered the circuit rider ministry |
| John Noyes | organized the Oneida community which believed illness could be cured through faith & all members married each other |
| Henry Longfellow | Wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Song of Hiawatha" |
| Henry Thoreau | Writer and poet who lived at Walden Pond |
| Ralph Emerson | Leader of the American transcendentalists and urged people to discover strengths within themselves |
| Emily Dickinson | Reclusive poet who published only 7 poems in her lifetime |
| Edgar Poe | Wrote "the Raven" and is the father of the mystery and detective fiction |
| Herman Melville | Wrote "Moby Dick" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote "Scarlet Letter" and "The House of seven Gables" |
| Washington Irving | Wrote "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" |
| Lucy Stone | 1st MA woman to earn a college degree and was 1st American woman to keep her own name |
| Susan B. Anthony | Spoke for women's rights and delivered speeches prepared by Stanton |
| Antoinette Blackwell | 1st ordained female minister |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1stAmerican female medical doctor |
| Emma Willard | Opened 1st high school for girls (Troy Female Seminary) in Troy |
| Harriet Tubman | Guided more than 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground RR |
| Elizabeth Stanton | Arranged the Seneca Falls Convention and drafted the "Declaration of Sentiments" |
| David Walker | published a pamphlet titled Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World and was killed for his beliefs |
| Mary Lyon | She opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary |
| Henry Garnet | He was a newspaper editor who urged slaves to resist and use force if necessary |
| Robert Owens | He founded New Harmony a community where all property was shared |
| Lucreita Mott | She helped Stanton arrange the Seneca Falls Convention |
| American Colonization Society | This group of people set up Liberia for free slaves but most people didn't want to go |
| John Quincy Adams | He got the House of Representatives to lift the gag rule so they could speak on antislavery petitions |
| James Finley | Famous preacher who discussed the importance of camp meeting |
| Tappan | These brothers formed the American anti-slavery Society |
| Oberlin College | center of anti-slavery movement |
| AME Church | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Samuel Howe | Taught blind students to read using Braille |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote "Leaves of Grass" |
| James Cooper | Wrote "Last of the Mohicans" and "The Deerslayer" |
