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Charles Grandison Finney |
preacher who inspired emotional religious faith through drama; "the father of modern revivalism" |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church |
1816- Richard Allen's created black church separate from white churches |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
New England writer who led a group practicing transcendentalism |
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Henry David Thoreau |
practiced self-reliance; wrote Walden (1854) which advised readers to follow their inner voice |
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Brooke Farm |
1841 - a utopian community established by George Ripley |
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Dorothea Dix |
1843-1852 - she was motivated to improve jail conditions and set up hospitals for mentally ill |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
radical white abolitionist who wrote "The Liberator" = immediate emancipation; founded Anti-Slavery Society (1832) |
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David Walker |
a free black who published "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (1829), which advised blacks to fight for freedom |
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Frederick Douglass |
learned to read and write from slave owner's wife; 1st escape slave; he became an eloquent speaker for the American Anti-Slavery Society; wrote "The North Star" |
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Nat Turner |
a preacher who believed he was chosen to lead his people out of bondage; he led a slave revolt in Southhampton County, VA, killing 50-60 whites |
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Horace Mann |
he became the first secretary to the MA Board of Ed; tax-supported education |
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New Harmony, Indiana terr. |
one of the best-known utopian communities |
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Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
they held the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848; wrote "Declaration of Sentiments" |
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Lucy Stone |
a woman who was a graduate of Oberlin College (1847) |
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Elizabeth Blackwell |
first American woman doctor who was a graduate of Geneva College, NY (1849) |
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Amelia Bloomers |
she fashioned loose-fit pants |
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Arthur Tappan & Wendel Phillipes |
they are members of the American Anti-Slavery Society; wealthy white abolitionists |
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Elijah P. Lovejoy |
he wrote "The Observer" ; was killed by a proslavery mob in Alton, IL (Nov 7, 1833) |
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Antislavery Parties |
Liberty Party (1844), Free Soil Party (1848-1832), Republican Party (1854) |
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Sarah and Angelina Grimké |
they spoke eloquently for abolition; wrote "An Appeal to Christian Women of the South" in 1836 |
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Mary C. Vaughan |
she supported the temperance movement and attested to the evils of alcohol |
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Mary Lyon |
she founded the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary |
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Emma Willard |
in 1821, she opened one of the nation's first academically rigorous schools for girls |
