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| Henry Highland Garland | Former slave; minister; early abolitionist |
| Charles Grandison Finney | Part of the Second Great Awakening; allowed women to pray aloud in church |
| James Monroe | Helped establish the country of Liberia for former slaves |
| James Forten | African American abolitionist |
| Frederick Douglas | Publisher of the NORTH STAR; powerful speaker against slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | White abolitionist; established New England Anti Slavery Society |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | South Carolina sisters who grew to hate slavery and worked to end it |
| Harriet Tubman | Heroic ex-slave who risked her life to help others to freedom |
| Lucretia Mott | Quaker minister who spoke out against slavery and for women's rights |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Daughter of a judge whose clerks would taunt her about her lack of legal rights |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave; delivered a stirring "Ain't I a Woman" speech |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's rights activist who was the only woman to appear on U.S. currency |
| Lucy Stone | Kept her maiden name when married |
| Emma Willard | Established a girls' high school that taught boys' subjects |
| Mary Lyon | Established Mt. Holyoke as the first women's college |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | The first woman in America to obtain a medical degree |
| Dorothea Dix | Worked to gain better care for prisoners and the mentally ill |
| Horace Mann | Worked for education reform |
| Thomas Gallaudet | Established a school for the deaf |
| Samuel Gridley Howe | Established a school for the blind |
| Washington Irving | A New York author who wrote stories such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Rip Van Winkle |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Wrote stories about Indians such as "Last of the Mohicans" and "Deerslayer" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | A New England author who wrote about Puritan life in books such as "The Scarlet Letter" |
| Herman Melville | Author of "Moby Dick" |
| William Wells Brown | The first African American to earn his living as an author |
| Margaret Fuller | Wrote about women's rights in books such as "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Helped start the Civil War with her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Julia Ward Howe | Wrote the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Father of the short story; wrote eerie books such as "The Tell Tale Heart" and athe "Pit and the Pendulum" |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | A Quaker poet whose poetry reflected the evils of slavery |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ". . .Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. . ." |
| Walt Whitman | Auther of "Leaves of Grass"; also worked as a nurse during the Civil War |
| Henry David Thoreau | Believed in living as simply as possible; author of "Walden" |
| Gilbert Stuart | Painted the portrait of George Washington saved from fire by Dolley Madison |
| George Catlin | traveled to the Far West to capture Native Americans |
