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Also Known As Isabella Van Wagener
Born c.1797 • New York
Died November 26, 1883 • Battle Creek • Michigan

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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
United States official and diplomat
Anna Murray Douglass
Anna Murray Douglass
American abolitionist
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American abolitionist and educator
Frances E.W. Harper
Frances E.W. Harper
American author and social reformer
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American social reformer
Martin Delany
American physician and abolitionist
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs
American abolitionist and author
Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World…
David Walker
American abolitionist
Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet
American abolitionist and clergyman
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
John Brown
John Brown
American abolitionist
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
American journalist
Wright, Frances
Frances Wright
American social reformer
portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
American author
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott
American social reformer
Robert Gould Shaw.
Robert Gould Shaw
Union army officer
Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner
United States statesman

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