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People (9)
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States, who held the Union together through civil war
Charles Sumner
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
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist, Union spy, and conductor of the Underground Railroad
John Brown
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)
Harpers Ferry
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)
Abolitionism
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
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