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20 matches to Abolition
Abolition Act. 1833. Ends slavery in British Empire.
Abolitionists. 1774-1868. US anti-slavery party. Merged into Republicans. Radical Republicans.
Adams, John Q. 1767-1848. US President 1825-9. Abolitionist.
Admonition to Parliament. 1572. Puritans demand episcopacy abolition.
American Civil War. 1861-5. Abolitionist North defeats slave-owning South. Britain and France support South, Russia supports North. Union. Confederacy.
Brown, John. 1800-59. US slavery abolitionist. Harper’s Ferry. Hung.
Cartwright, John. 1740-1824. English reformer for universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery.
Derby, Earl of. 1799-1869. English Prime Minister 1852, 58, 66. Abolition of slavery.
Douglass, Frederick. 1817-95. US ex-slave abolitionist leader.
Evans, Timothy. -1953. Wrongful hanging led to abolition of capital punishment in Britain.
Grimké, Sarah and Angelina. 1792-1873; 1805-79. US feminists, abolitionists.
Phillips, Wendell. 1811-84. US abolitionist, women’s suffrage, prohibition crusader.
Pottawatomie Massacre. 1856. John Brown’s abolitionists kill 5 pro-slavery settlers.
Radical Republicans. 1860-77. Anti-slavery faction of US Republican Party. Abolitionists.
Republican Party. 1792 Jefferson’s agrarian party. 1820 Whigs. 1854. Anti-slavery party. Lincoln. = Grand Old Party. vs Democratic Party.
Seward, William. 1801-72. Anti-slavery US statesman. “Seward’s Folly”-bought Alaska 1867.
Sumner, Charles. 1811-74. US Abolitionist senator. Urged Johnson impeachment.
Tappan, Arthur. 1786-1865. US abolitionist. Founded Anti-Slavery Society 1833.
Truth, Sojourner. c1797-1883. US freed slave, evangelist, abolitionist, woman rights campaigner.
Whittier, John. 1807-92. US Quaker, Abolitionist poet: Maud Muller 1854. Snow Bound 1866.