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
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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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