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Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom via the underground railroad |
William Lloyd Garrison | Publisher of "The Liberator" |
Frederick Douglas | Escaped slave who became an influential abolitionist author and speaker |
John Brown | Lead a band of abolitionists against the U.S. Arsenal at Harper's Ferry Virginia |
Nat Turner | Slave preacher who lead a revolt against slaveholders in the South |
Dred Scott | Slave who sued for his freedom and his case was heard by the Supreme Court |
Abraham Lincoln | Issued the Emancipation Proclimation in 1863 |