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ABOLITIONIST

• A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
• In this case, applies to american slavery
• Most abolitionists in the 1800s resided in the north of the United States
• Rest of the world
• Sweden bans slavery in 1542

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• Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were some of the first abolitionists
• By 1804, all northern states had banned slavery
• For example, The Pennsylvania Great emancipation act was one of the acts that illegalized it
• After the revolutionary war, many southern slave owners freed slaves in their wills
• This caused the number of freed slaves to rise by 10 percent

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• In 1807, jefferson passed the act prohibiting the importation of slaves
• By the 1850s, slave population were roughly 4 million
• Only 15 states had legalized slavery by then.
• In the 1850s, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin
• It inflamed the nation

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• Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist from Connecticut
• Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave
• In the north, he made speeches against slavery
• He also wrote two books about his life as a slave
• Had a big impact on the abolitionist movement

NOTABLE ABOLITIONISTS

• John adams
• Alexander Hamilton
• Ulysses Grant
• Wendell Phillips
• Dred Scott

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• Henry Brewster Stanton
• Henry David thoreau
• Sojourner Truth
• Walt Whithman
• Henry Wilson