For two years, Walker worked as a seamstress for James Lesley, a young merchant and abolitionist.
Only one formerly abolitionist country has resumed executions the Philippines though it has since suspended them again.
The younger Sill was an abolitionist in Ohio, a state that, along with Massachusetts, led the anti-slavery crusade.
Through one long night, in front of a fire, he recounts to her the history of the abolitionist movement.
Even more striking is the abolitionist Presidential campaign of Joseph Smith in 1844.
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The radical abolitionist with a talent for long-winded but oh-so poignant insults for his Democratic colleagues often stole the show.
" Kansas faithful countered with apparel pairing the abolitionist John Brown and a taunt: "Keeping America Safe From Missouri Since 1854.
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The exhibit brings these characters to life: Brown led the militant abolitionist raid on the Harpers Ferry Arsenal in October 1859.
Mr Rumsfeld's is called Mount Misery: Frederick Douglass, a renowned American abolitionist and statesman, was enslaved there in the early 19th century.
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The most prescient was Frederick Douglass, the vibrant ex-slave turned abolitionist orator.
William was a parliamentary opponent of William Wilberforce, a leading abolitionist.
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And in 1772, in London, Lord Mansfield, nudged by the advocacy of Granville Sharp, an abolitionist, judged that Africans could not be transported against their will.
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, born to abolitionist Quaker parents in 1844 in upstate New York, dabbled in a bit of everything, with no particular success at first.
It is true that Adams believed that slavery was wrong but his commitment did not take him to the point where he was willing to join the abolitionist.
The slave master-turned-abolitionist made that journey from ignorance to enlightenment.
Whereas Americans used to look upon Wilberforce, in a fuzzy way, as an equivalent of Abraham Lincoln, the British abolitionist has now acquired fans on the religious right.
It had the slightly conspiratorial feel of an abolitionist meeting.
Though opposed to slavery, he was not an out-and-out abolitionist.
Turner also notes that the song makes an appearance in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which came to be embraced by abolitionist forces as an indictment of plantation life and slavery.
We recognize specific individuals, including Woodruff himself, among the abolitionist supporters of the Africans, but larger pictorial issues slashing diagonals, arabesque rhythms, carefully orchestrated groupings, spatial shifts knit the three enormous paintings together and subsume the narrative.
Whereas most of America North and South was more moderate on the issue, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts represented the abolitionist point of view, which called for the immediate and uncompsensated end to slavery, which the South feared greatly.
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Gangel's auction has a third part, a general consignment sale that includes a revolver once owned by Western legend Wyatt Earp, and the rifle Virginia Governor Henry Alexander Wise used to send famed abolitionist John Brown to the gallows in 1859.
And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
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Steve Turner's book Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song tells the story of composer John Newton's conversion from slave trader to abolitionist, and traces the evolution of the song from its composition in 1772 as a hymn with no set tune to the version familiar today.
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