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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Brown
In 1859, John Brown collected a small body of men, white and black, in the mountains of Maryland. He made a sudden attack upon Harper's Ferry, where there was a United States arsenal, which he seized and held for a few hours. The attack...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Lowndes Yancey
William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 - July 27, 1863) was a journalist, politician, orator, diplomat and an American leader of the Southern secession movement. A member of the group known as the Fire-Eaters, Yancey was one of the most...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, former United States President, involved in slavery issues and the Civil War.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abraham Lincoln
The sixteenth president of the United States, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, Feb. 12, 1809; died April 15, 1865. He was a great opposer of slavery.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Booker T. Washington
An African American educator and author. He was born into slavery at the community of Hale's Ford in Franklin County, Virginia. As a young man he made his way east from West Virginia to obtain schooling at Hampton in eastern Virginia at...
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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
American opponent of slavery.
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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: John Charles Fremont
(1813-1890) An American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Charles Fremont
John Charles Fremont (January 21, 1813 - July 13, 1890), was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Joshua Reed Giddings
Joshua Reed Giddings (October 6, 1795 - May 27, 1864) was an American statesman prominent in the anti-slavery conflict.
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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...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906) Susan B. Anthony was a school teacher who became a prominent agitator for the abolition of slavery. She also worked on the Women's Suffrage movement.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas H. Benton
Thomas H. Benton, former United States Senator from Missouri whom was involved in the years of slavery.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips was an anti-slavery orator.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wendell Phillips
The great Anti-Slavery agitator, Wendell Phillips, was born in Boston, November 29, 1811, and was the son of the first Mayor of that city. -The Popular Cyclopedia, 1888
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wendell Phillips
(1811-1884) American orator and reformer who led the anti-slavery campaign and fought for the rights of women and Native Americans.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William H. Seward
William H. Seward, former United States Senator from New York involved in slavery issues.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Frederick Douglass: A Biography" by National Park Service
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Lincoln, the North, and the Question of Emancipation
This learning module explores Lincoln's arguments against slavery as well as public feelings and concerns about emancipation as expressed through art and literature of the day.