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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which showed the harsh conditions of African slavery in America |
| Nat Turner | an enslaved African-American preacher who led a two-day rebellion of both enslaved and free black people in Southampton County, Virginia, beginning August 21, 1831. The rebellion caused the death of approximately 60 white men, women and children. |
| Samba | planned a major rebellion in Louisiana for June of 1731; his plot was discovered and he was executed |
| Sally Hemings | a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson who had a relationship with Jefferson that led to children |
| Harriet Tubman | a woman born into slavery who escaped and became a conductor for the Underground Railroad; leading 13 successful missions and freeing over 70 slaves |
| David Walker | an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist who wrote “An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World” |
| Gabriel | this man created plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800; he was a literate enslaved blacksmith |
| John Brown | an American abolitionist. Brown advocated the use of armed revolts to overthrow slavery in the United States |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely-read abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator |
| William Cowper | English poet and hymn writer who wrote a number of anti-slavery poems |
| Henry Brown | a slave who shipped himself from Virginia to Philadelphia in a box to escape slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | a slave who escaped who wrote a biography called the "Narrative of the Life of . . . " |
| Robert Smalls | a former slave who stole a ship with his companions, picked up their families, and took the ship to the North during the Civil War |
| Harriet Jacobs | a slave who escaped an abusive master by hiding in an attic for seven years before escaping north; her story was published under the title “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” |
