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SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

CONTENTS

The Amistad Case
a Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839


John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry


Emancipation Proclamation


John Brown
passionionate, murderous, and treasonous abolitionist


Frederick Douglass
very gifted abolitionist orator


William Lloyd Garrison
journalist famous for his denunciations of slavery


Elijah Parish Lovejoy
abolitionist preacher/printer and martyr to his cause


Lucretia Coffin Mott
abolitionist and advocate for women's rights


Harriet Tubman
one of the most successful conductors on the Underground Railroad

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