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#Abolition

22 entries

People (9)

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States, who held the Union together through civil war

Abolitionist Senator Beaten on the Senate Floor, 1811–1874

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist, orator, and the 19th century's most powerful voice against American slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the novelist who sharpened the nation's conscience on slavery

Abolitionist, Union spy, and conductor of the Underground Railroad

Militant abolitionist who brought the war over slavery to a boil

Sojourner Truth

Abolitionist, suffragist, and orator who escaped slavery to become its most forceful living refutation

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical Republican Congressman and Architect of Reconstruction

William Lloyd Garrison

Publisher, abolitionist, and the loudest moral voice against American slavery

Places (2)

The Virginia armory town where John Brown struck the spark that lit the Civil War

The Liberty Bell

The cracked Philadelphia bell that became an emblem of freedom

Events (3)

American Civil War

The 1861–1865 war over slavery and union that remade the nation

John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

The 1859 assault on a federal arsenal that made civil war feel inevitable to everyone

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The 1852 novel that turned a generation against slavery

Documents (4)

Ain't I a Woman?

Sojourner Truth's case for equal rights, 1851

Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln's 1863 executive order that transformed the Civil War into a war for human freedom

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

The law that forced the North to enforce slavery — and radicalized it

Thirteenth Amendment

The 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States

Concepts (3)

The movement to end slavery in America, from moral argument to political force

American Slavery

The institution that built the republic's wealth, defined its politics, and nearly destroyed the nation

Underground Railroad

The secret network of routes and safe houses that carried enslaved people to freedom

Organizations (1)

Garrison's abolitionist weekly, 1831-1865

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