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Notable Figures in Abolitionism
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- James Armistead, American patriot
- Matthew Ashby, American colonist
- Crispus Attucks, American patriot
- Joseph Cinqué, slave leader
- Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist
- Martin Robinson Delany, American black leader
- Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist
- W. E. B. Dubois, American author and teacher
- Henry Highland Garnet, American abolitionist clergyman
- Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier
- Homer Plessy, challenged segregation on trains
- Gabriel Prosser, leader of unsuccessful slave revolt
- Dred Scott, of the Supreme Court Dred Scott case
- Pierre Toussaint, philanthropist
- Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist
- Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist
- Nat Turner, American slave
- Gustavus Vassa, abolitionist, writer
- Denmark Vesey, American leader
- Phillis Wheatley, American poet
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