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    arguably one of the most important abolitionists and human rights lecturers in the United Kingdom and the United States. Thompson had little formal education...
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  • Isle of Wight George Thompson (abolitionist) (1804–1878), British anti-slavery lecturer and MP for Tower Hamlets George Thompson (shipowner) (1804–1895)...
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    John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in...
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    Wendell Phillips (category Abolitionists from Boston)
    February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney. According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney,...
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    William Lloyd Garrison (category Abolitionists from Boston)
    the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society after the fiery British abolitionist George Thompson was unable to keep his engagement with them. Mayor Theodore Lyman...
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    (2011). "Atlantic Slavery, Atlantic Freedom: George Washington, Slavery, and Transatlantic Abolitionist Networks". The William and Mary Quarterly. 68...
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  • Abolitionist Society on campus. He joined over fifty students in advocating for abolition following lectures in 1834 by George Thompson (abolitionist)...
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  • - Merchant, social reformer, son of Thomas Sturge the Elder George Thompson - Abolitionist and anti-slavery activist Rev. Robert Vaughan - Congregationalist...
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  • George Thompson Knight (October 29, 1850 – 1911) was an American Universalist teacher at the Crane Theological School, a Universalist seminary at Tufts...
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    (2011). "Atlantic Slavery, Atlantic Freedom: George Washington, Slavery, and Transatlantic Abolitionist Networks". The William and Mary Quarterly. 68...
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    George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Over the course of George's reign, a coalition of abolitionists and Atlantic slave uprisings caused the British public...
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    Samuel J. May in 1851 spoke at the college on the English abolitionist George Thompson (abolitionist). In 1852, according to Professor William G. Allen, "There...
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  • avenge an anti-American remark made by George P. Farren, the theatre's English-born stage manager and an abolitionist: "Damn the Yankees; they are a damn...
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  • Impact of British Activist George Thompson on American Abolitionist Societies | Readex". "George Thompson, Orator, and Abolitionist born". "Introduction |...
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    Wormald Appleyard Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet Tom Maguire George Thompson (abolitionist) Jabez Tunnicliff John Grimshaw Wilkinson A cemetery in Leeds...
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    (British) George Thompson (British) John Harfield Tredgold (British) John Wesley (British) William Wilberforce (British) Leading Parliamentary abolitionist Henry...
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    The Liberator (newspaper) (category Abolitionist newspapers published in the United States)
    The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp...
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    Frederick Douglass (category Abolitionists from Maryland)
    site of an earlier house where Douglass stayed with the British abolitionist George Thompson. On July 31, 2023, the first statue of him in Europe was unveiled...
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    William Still (October 7, 1819 – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a conductor of the Underground...
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    nevertheless Saint-Georges was invited separately. On his first trip Saint-Georges passed Brissot's request to the British abolitionists, they complied by...
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  • Frederick Chesson (category English abolitionists)
    during the American Civil War. In 1855 he married Amelia Thompson, daughter of activist George Thompson (1804–1878). He was also a leading supporter of Sir...
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    Harriet Tubman (category African-American abolitionists)
    (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions...
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    advocates replacing policing with other systems of public safety. Police abolitionists believe that policing, as a system, is inherently flawed and cannot...
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    Jesus should be removed. Protesters defaced a statue of Philadelphia abolitionist Matthias Baldwin with the words "murderer" and "colonizer". Protesters...
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    Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Tubman escaped slavery and rescued approximately 70 enslaved people, including...
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  • Thomas W. Savage (a former abolitionist whom Union military authorities soon appointed mayor). However, neither Thompson nor Taylor proved outspoken...
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    Helen Eliza Benson Garrison (category Abolitionists from Rhode Island)
    Providence, Rhode Island to Sarah Thurber and George Benson, who raised her in a merchant and abolitionist family. Helen's father was a member of the Pennsylvania...
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  • Andrew Thompson Judson (November 29, 1784 – March 17, 1853) was a United States representative from Connecticut and a United States district judge of the...
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    Silas Soule (category Abolitionists from Maine)
    Silas Soule was born into a family of abolitionists in Bath, Maine, descended from Mayflower passenger George Soule. He was raised in Maine and Massachusetts...
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    sailors, and much of his time "given up to unselfish acts.": 222  An abolitionist, Hamilton assisted the Underground Railroad in the escape of at least...
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