abolitionist
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The novel is taught in universities around the world and is thought to have inspired the abolitionist movement.
From BBC
“It turns out, the radical abolitionists represented a very small minority in Boston and that the social division of labor was really discriminatory,” she said.
From Seattle Times
“Harriet Tubman is a saint for me,” he said about the 19th century Black abolitionist known for helping enslaved people escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
From Seattle Times
Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was a leading member of the abolitionist movement to outlaw slavery in the US.
From BBC
He was the man who, in 1859, led his sons and fellow abolitionists, Black and white, on a raid of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia, now in West Virginia.
From Los Angeles Times
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