October 29, 2006

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Some more leaders of our nation:

". . . Influential leaders of the abolition movement (1810-60) included:

William Lloyd Garrison - Published The Liberator newspaper
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Frederick Douglass - Nation's most powerful anti-slavery speaker, a former slave
Harriet Tubman - Helped 350 slaves escape from the South, became known as a "conductor" on the "Underground Railroad". . ."

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