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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; helped nation feel a sympathy for slaves. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Most conspicuous and most vilified of abolitionists; nonresistant pacifist; favored North secession from South and antagonized both sides. |
| Denmark Vesey | Free black; led ill-fated rebellion in Charlestown 1822, him and thirty others hanged. |
| David Walker | Wrote "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"; advocated bloody end to white supremacy. |
| Nat Turner | Visionary black preacher; led uprising that slaughtered about sixty Virginians. |
| Sojourner Truth | Known as "Isabella"; held audiences spellbound with deep, resonant voice and religious passion that she used to condemn the sin of slavery. |
| Theodore Dwight Weld | Organized eight-day debate on slavery fanned out across Old Northwest preaching antislavery gospel. |
| Frederick Douglass | Born slave, escaped to North and became most prominent of black abolitionists; US minister in Haiti. |
| Arthur Lewis Tappan | Wealthy merchant; paid Weld's way to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinatti, Ohio. |
| Elijah P. Lovejoy | Reverend; not content to assail slavery so impugned chastity of Catholic women. |
| Oligarchy | Form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a small exclusive class. |
| Abolitoinism | A belif in the abolition of slavery. |
| "Positive Good" | The time period pertaining to the growing economy and the need for slavery to sustain it. |
| Cotton Kingdom | The Southern area in which all of the United States' and most of Europe's cotton was grown. |
| The Liberator | The first militantly antislavery newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Mulattoes | A child born with a white parent and a black parent. |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | A group of dedicated abolitionists who rallied on Garrison's standard. |
| Peculiar Institution | The reference that underscored the fact that the institution of slavery was difficult to recnocile with the values and ideals of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. |
| Liberty Party | Party centralized about ending slavery. Precedes the Free Soil and Republican parties. |
| Lane Rebles | Slave who fled their master and entered "Lanes" to the north. |
| Gag Resolution | A resolution that asked the House to pass all such antislavery appeals to be table without debate. |
