Harriet Tubman: The legacy of a freedom fighter and abolitionist
Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...
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Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
The ideas of the speech would find greater grounding among Douglass and a number of other abolitionists in the years leading up to the Civil War. Although his address to enslaved people gained ...
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George Boutwell, the radical abolitionist Republican you've likely never heard of
Jeffrey Boutwell, a distant relative, tells his story in the new book “Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy ...
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On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches
"An abolitionist and true patriot who sacrificed so much for ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to lead a major military operation when she guided ...
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From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
it is ironic that her own fame ended up drowning out the abolitionist associations of “pride and prejudice” after the Civil War. If there is any work of fiction that successfully makes self ...
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On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches
"An abolitionist and true patriot who sacrificed ... She was also a nurse and Union spy during the Civil War — becoming the first woman to lead a major military operation when she guided 150 ...