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| Lewis Tappan | Wealthy New York abolitionist merchant whose home was demolished by a mob in 1834 |
| Nat Turner | Visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the South |
| Lane Theological Seminary | Midwestern institution whose president expelled eighteen students for organizing a debate on slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | New York free black woman who fought for emancipation for women's rights |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Leading radical abolitionist that burned the Constitution as "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of an abolitionist novel that portrayed the separation of slave families by auction |
| Virginia legislature | Site of the last major southern debate over slavery and emancipation, in 1831-1832 |
| Sir Walter Scott | English novelist whose romantic medievalism encouraged the semifeudal ideals of the southern planter aristocracy |
| Martin Delany | Black abolitionist who visited West Africa in 1859 to examine sites where African Americans might relocate |
| John Quincy Adams | Former president who fought for the right to discuss slavery in Congress |
| Elijah Lovejoy | Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr |
| Liberia | West African republic founded in 1822 by freed blacks from the United States |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action |
| David Walker | Black abolitionist writer who called for a bloody end to slavery in an appeal of 1829 |
| Theodore Dwight Weld | Leader of the "Lane Rebels" who wrote the powerful antislavery work American Slavery As It Is |
