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* Frederic Douglas | * Frederic Douglas | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:William Lloyd Garrison|prominent abolitionist and anti-slavery publisher of the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" in Baltimore in the 1820s and of "The Liberator" in Boston from 1831-1865; Garrison held that abolitionists should not obey the US Constitution's implicit protections of slavery and the Constitution was thereby invalid; Garrison helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society; Garrison extended his activism to include "universal emancipation," which was to include equal political rights for women and to abolish prisons and war}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:William Lloyd Garrison|prominent abolitionist and anti-slavery publisher of the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" in Baltimore in the 1820s and of "The Liberator" in Boston from 1831-1865; Garrison held that abolitionists should not obey the US Constitution's implicit protections of slavery and the Constitution was thereby invalid; Garrison helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society; Garrison extended his activism to include "universal emancipation," which was to include equal political rights for women and to abolish prisons and war}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Grimke sisters|Angelina and Sarah Grimke, who with Theodore Weld investigated and publicized the treatment and conditions of slaves in the South; the Grimke sisters deeply influenced the abolitionist movement}}</ul></li> | |||
* Sojourner Truth | * Sojourner Truth | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Theodore Weld|early abolitionist who with the Grimke sisters investigated and published on the horrible conditions of slaves and their treatment; Weld helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Theodore Weld| early abolitionist who with the Grimke sisters investigated and published on the horrible conditions of slaves and their treatment; Weld helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society}}</ul></li> | ||
=== Social reform === | === Social reform === |