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National Park Service: The Life of Frederick Douglass
Brief biography of Frederick Douglass with links to pictures and short biographies of his wife and children.
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National Civil Rights Museum
Get a glimpse of what is housed in the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The interactive tour highlights the struggle and introduces key historical figures such as Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Dred Scott, and Frederick...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Read about the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Included is an engraving of her done in 1855.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902 CE), noted suffragist and reformer of the women's rights movement. Additional content includes a photograph and Stanton's statement before the Judiciary...
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National Park Service: Operating the Underground Railroad
Read about the necessity for a loose organization such as the Underground Railroad. Click on "List of Sites" to find out about Underground Railroad stations across the north.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Guide to Black History: William Lloyd Garrison
This entry from Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Black History features William Lloyd Garrison, an American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831-65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Amistad Case:
Pictures and text from the Smithsonian Institute about the 1839 slave rebellion on the slave ship, The Amistad and the ensuing trial of the 36 Africans involved in the rebellion.
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National Park Service: Harriet Beecher Stowe House
This 'Aboard the Underground Railroad' site provides a short outline of Stowe's life and work.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Presidential Election, 1856
A map of the United States during the heated presidential election of 1856, showing the States carried by the Republican Party (John Fremont), Democrat Party (James Buchanan), and the newly formed American Party, or 'Know-Nothing’ Party...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Presidential Election , 1856
A map of the United States during the heated presidential election of 1856, showing the States carried by the Republican Party (John Fremont), Democrat Party (James Buchanan), and the newly formed American Party, or 'Know-Nothing’ Party...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Nathan and Mary Johnson Properties
These buildings, now housing the New Bedford Historical Society, belonged to a free African-American couple active in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. They notably took in activist Frederick Douglass after his...
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Uncle Tom and Slave Owner Simon Legree
An overview of slave revolts and abolitionist efforts during the first half of the nineteenth century, leading up until the Civil War. Read about the Underground Railroad, the colonization movement, and various anti-slavery books.
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Map Comparing Slave and Free States
From historical documents trace how the abolitionists virulently decried slavery and denounced those who supported it. From the Library of Congress.
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Early Copy of the Liberator
From historical documents trace how the abolitionists virulently decried slavery and denounced those who supported it. From the Library of Congress.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mrs. Stanton was an early women's rights activist and abolitionist of slavery.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Harriet Beecher Stowe
An abolitionist, and writer of more than 10 books. Her most famous piece was Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery.
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Brown
John Brown was an anti-slavery abolitionist, known for the John Brown raid on October 16th, 1858, when he and others seized the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Brown
John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and the unsuccessful raid...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Brown
John Brown (1800 - 1859) was an American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection to end slavery. He played an integral part in making Kansas a free state. However, he was unsuccessful in the raid at Harpers Ferry in...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lord Henry Brougham
(1778-1868) Lord Henry Peter Brougham, the first Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British writer, scientist, lawyer, Whig politician and abolitionist. Brougham was responsible for passing the Reform Act of 1832 and the Slavery Abolition...
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: The Growing National Crisis: The 1850s: Quiz 5
Choose the correct word from the drop down menu for each of the twelve questions to evaluate your knowledge of people and events relating to the growing national crisis in the 1850s.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Susan B. Anthony
Use this resource to learn about an advocate of women's rights and slave's freedom, Susan B. Anthony, whose efforts gave all U.S. citizens regardless of race and sex the right to vote. This website includes related links and resources...