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| William Lloyd Garrison | In 1831 formed anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator - |
| Frederick Douglass | A former slave who escaped to the North and became active in the abolitionist movement. Started anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star". |
| John Brown | A radical abolitionist who violently attacked slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre against proslavery settlers in Kansas in 1856 and the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859. |
| Nat Turner | an educated slave and minister who led a bloody slave uprising in 1831 at Southampton VA;. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A prominent advocate of women's rights, organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott |
| Susan B Anthony | One of the first female rights activists, leader at the Seneca Falls Convention, firmly committed to female suffrage. Founded the National Woman Suffrage Assoc. |
| Underground Railroad | a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada |
| Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist who was born a slave, escaped to the North, and then returned to the South nineteen times and guided 300 slaves to freedom. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | She wrote the abolitionist book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | A novel promoting abolition. Intensified sectional conflict. |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford Case | (1857) U.S. Supreme Court ruling that slaves were not U.S. citizens and therefore could not sue for their freedom and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the western territories. |
| Lucretia Mott | Prominent abolitionist and woman's rights activist throughout the 19th century. |
| Dred Scott | Slave in the United States who sued for his freedom |
