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Frederick Douglas | one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, and a brilliant speaker, he also published the North Star an anti-slavery newspaper |
Sojourner Truth | an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist, known for her speech "Aint I a Woman?" |
John Brown | an American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery |
Henry Highland Garnet | an African American abolitionist and advocate of militant abolitionism |
Harriet Tubman | After escaping slavery she made 13 trips to rescue slaves through the Underground railroad |
William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist and writer of the anti-slave newspaper The Liberator |
Gabriel Prosser | a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned and led a large slave rebellion in the summer of 1800 |
Nat Turner | an American slave who led a slave rebellion that resulted in 60 deaths ,the largest number of fatatlities to occur in one uprising. |