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Absalom Jones became one of the foremost leaders among persons of African decent. In 1787, him and his friend Richard Allen organized the Free African Society as a social,political and humanitarian organization to help widows,burial assistance, assist the sick and orphans in Philadelphia.  In 1797, he was installed as First Worship Master and in 1815 he was elected the first Grand Master of the first African Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.

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Martin Robison Delany  was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. He was the first African American admitted to Harvard Medical school. He educated others about the evil of slavery, and he helped defend the black community against white mob attacks. Delany was hired by frederick douglass to write his paper. He later joined the civil war and became the highest-ranking African American in the military. He became active in promoting the use of African Americans in the Union Army, recruiting one of his sons.

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Andrew Curtin was the governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War. He was instrumental in swinging Pennsylvania's critical electoral votes to Lincoln in the Presidential election. He supported Lincoln and The Eman

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Samuel Burris was a free black man, during a time that slavery was at an all time high. He was born in Willow Grove, Delaware but decided to move himself and his family to Philadelphia, which was a safe city. Samuel and his partner John Hunn started working with the Underground Railroad in 1845, they worked together to help free the slaves from Maryland and Delaware. In Delaware, helping slaves escape into freedom was a very serious offense that had a consequence of being auctioned into slavery. In 1847, Samuel was caught and put in jail for 14 months while he awaited his trial and then was immediately sentenced to be auctioned. However, Burris’ friends who were also abolitionists found out and bought him. They then freed him, and he was soon back in Philadelphia with his family.

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Francis Daniel Pastorius was a leader of the German town settlement. He drafted the first protest against slavery in America. In 1688 he was one of several Pennsylvanian Quakers who signed a protest against keeping slavery.

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Passmore Williamson was a businessman and abolitionist from Philadelphia. Williamson was a part of the Society of Friends but was later disowned because he was involved in radical abolitionism. Williamson soon became a member (secretary) of the Anti-Slavery Society. WIlliamson is best known for helping with the freedom of Jane Johnson and her sons. Due to his involvement he was tried for treason by a pro-slavery judge and spent 100 days in jail. A lithograph of Williamson in prison were sold to aide the abolitionist cause, making his imprisonment helpful to the cause.

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Passmore Williamson (February 23, 1822 - February 1, 1895) was an abolitionist and businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a free state in the antebellum years. Secretary of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and a member of its Vigilance Committee, Williamson is best known for helping Jane Johnson and her two sons gain freedom from slavery on July 18, 1855.

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Elizabeth belonged to the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and actively supported the free produce movement. She introduced one of the most famous abolitionist images " Am i not a women and a sister". Participated in national discussions and debates through her poems and articles. Organized Michigan's first antislavery association and one of the few in her day were totally intergrated. The organization created a main link in the underground railroad to Canada.

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James Forten was born a free black in Philadelphia. He was a devoted philanthropist and social activist which led him to form lasting partnerships with black ministers, to found  church. He was originally a supporter of colonization, but soon became more and more involved with the antislavery cause. He personally investigated to assist in the relocation of blacks to Haiti. Forten embraced abolition and remained active in social reform until death. Before his death, he joined forces with Allen to organize the convention of free colored people, which embraced racial equality and a program of social uplifts for blacks.

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1804-1876
William Whipper was a businessman who was born in Lancaster, PA who relocated to Philadelphia, PA and many other Pennsylvanian areas. He was the son of a white man which helped form his wealth since he had inherited the business from his father. Whipper invested in many tools (railroad cars, steamships, etc.) to help aid fugitive slaves escape via the underground railroad. He aided hundreds of slaves through Columbia, PA. He also co-found an anti-slavery American Moral Reform Society. He also aided slaves into his home in Columbia.

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Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm - Mia Carter 

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Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm - Mia Carter 

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(6 Dec. 1815-22 July 1884)

Jane Swisshelm was a Pittsburgh-born anti-slavery journalist who targeted both the president's and Democratic newspaper companies' opinions on slavery. While struggling to run her own newspaper company, St. Cloud Visitier, she was a popular women's rights activist. With her writing's influence, the Commonwealth legislature passed the Pennsylvania Married Woman’s Property Law in 1848, which granted women the right to retain property they possessed upon entering a marriage. Due to her husband refusing to divorce her, she wasn't able to keep her newspaper The Visitier and sold it.  In 1863, she worked in the Civil War to help northern wounded sodliers then begun her final newspaper The Reconstructionist.

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(1789-1839)
Benjamin Lundy was born 1789 and was a white american abolitionist and news publisher. He was originally from Sussex County, New Jersey but soon started saddle making in Wheeling, Vermont. Benjamin then came to see that slavery is a terrible thing and should be gone. In 1815, he created the Union Humane society and in 1821 he began writing anti-slavery newspapers. He also traveled searching for safe places where runaway slaves could settle. In 1839 Lundy moved to Illinois, and soon died later that year on August 22.

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Henry "Box" Brown was born a slave in Virginia in 1816. By the time he was 33, he escaped to abolitionists in Philadelphia by mailing himself in a wooden crate. Hence his nickname. He became a abolitionist speaker in the states and later moved to England for some time. While in England he toured with the anti-slavery panorama. With him being a public figure as a escaped slave, he was endangered under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

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William Still was a child of two former slaves, one who bought their freedom and one who escaped twice. Still left his home in 1850 and soon after became a journalist and documented and preserved stories of escaped slaves. In 1859, Still challenged the segregation of the city's public transit system. He is often referred to as the "Father of the Underground Railroad" because he helped 800 slaves escape and shared their stories.
-Taylor LaPergola

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1818-1894
John Hunn was an American abolitionist, farmer, and Quaker from New County, Delaware. He was the Chief Engineer in the Underground Railroad in Delaware. He assisted a man named Samuel Hawkins escape from slavery with his family in Maryland, and was convicted and fined $!0,000.00, twice, by the state of Delaware. He was told the fines wouldn't be imposed if he would vow not to continue his efforts with helping slaves. He continued to be an abolitionist anyways. His house and possessions were sold as result, and he and his family were left poor and destitute because of this. He then moved to Magnolia, Delaware and then to Port Royal, South Carolina and worked with the Freedmen's Bureau during the Civil War. He then died in Camden, Delaware.
- Griffin Brocco

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(1784-1876)
Jennett was brought up in a Quaker faith household. She had strong values regarding human dignity and anti-slavery. She cared immensely for her community and created a safe haven known as the Johnson House for Freedom Seekers on their journey to the north. When she died her children took up her legacy.

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Benjamin Franklin was apart of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He was a famous news paper editor and printer, in Philadelphia. He was the first president of what is now know as the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected as the 6th president of the United States. In 1788 he served as Governor of Pennsylvania. He also owned and dealt with slaves, but argued against slavery from an economic stand point.

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Benjamin Rush was a founding father of the United States. He was a man who opposed slavery and argued that blacks were not lower than whites. He was one of the strongest white allies of the black community. In 1776 he purchased his own slave even though he was against slavery. When Benjamin heard about the first African American organization FAS, the Free African Society he financially supported that group.

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John woolman is a man who went ageist the ideas of slavery by the way that he went about dealing with it. He was originally a merchant but with his ideology he changed to stop being a merchant when he did not want to write up a slave bill that his employer had asked him to write up so he quit his job and became a tailor. As a tailor he chose to wear un-dyed  clothing because he thought that dyes represented slavery.He had strange ways of dealing with problems at the time so he helped the Quakers change by the fact that he refused to do anything that had slavery involved with it. John woolman lead his life by openly expressing his option towards slavery.

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William Wright was an abolitionist who provided rest and transportation for runaway slaves in Columbia, PA. He donated a tract of land in the city to black residents known as Tow Hill, which later became a center of underground railroad activity. Wright became a conductor as early as 1804. He helped slaves escape to freedom by hiding them in false-bottom wagons or in disguises. His family owned a ferry that transported slaves across the Susquehanna river. William Wright used the resources left by his family, such as the ferry, in order to help slaves escape slavery and reach freedom.

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Thomas Garret was an American abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement. When a family servant was kidnapped by men who planned to sell her as a slave in the South , he tracked them down and released her. Garrett later moved to Wilmington Delaware to help pursue the end of slavery. Garrett openly worked as a stationmaster on the last stop of the Underground Railroad in the state. He openly defied slave hunters as well as the slave system, Garrett had no need of secret rooms in his house. Garrett was found guilty of violating the Fugitive Slave Act for helping a family escape. He was fined $4,500. Garrett was also a friend to Harriet Tubman. He frequently provided her with money and shoes to continue her missions of helping runaways escape slavery.  - Ryan Snyder

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James Mott was a Quaker leader, educator, and businessman as well as an advocate for anti-slavery and women's rights.  James became a teacher at Nine Partners School in Poughkeepsie, NY. It was here that he met his more famous wife, Lucretia Coffin Mott who was a student and then a teacher’s aid. They got married in Philadelphia on April 10th, 1811. James Mott was active in the anti-slavery movement, and was involved in many of the same events as his wife. They formed the Philadelphia Free Produce Society, which encouraged the establishment of free-produce stores that sold products made free of slave labor, and helped to educate the public about the boycott.

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Lucretia Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.Lucretia Mott was one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movements of her time. She was raised in a Quaker community and adopted its anti-slavery views. Mott helped form the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, and later was among the founders of the American women’s rights movement. She advocated antislavery and boycotted all products of slave labor. After the Civil War, Mott, unlike many abolitionists who believed their work was done, threw herself into the cause of black suffrage and aid for free people.

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William was born 14 October 1644, he was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. He was an early advocate of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans. As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace very strongly.

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Richard Allen was born into slavery in Philadelphia, PA on February 14, 1760. He bought his freedom for $2000 in 1783. Allen converted to Methodism at the age of 17 and later founded the first national black church in the United States, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The paper containing Richard's freedom was the first manumission document to be held as a public file, which was donated to the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Richard Allen formed the Free Produce Society, where members would only purchase products from non-slave labor, in 1830.

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Octavius Catto was born in Charleston,  South Carolina a free black man.  Later in his life he lived in Philadelphia and became an abolition and equal rights activist.  Catto also joined forces with Frederick Douglas and other leaders of the free black community,  and together they recruited black men to fight for the Union in the Civil War.  In 1864 Octavius Catto was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Pennsylvainia Equal rights leaque, and he was Vice President of the State Convention of Colored People. Catto was a strong advocate of the passing of the bill in Pennsylvania that stopped segregation of state transit systems. Lastly, he was involved in advocating for the ratification of the 15th amendment, which gave black MEN the right to vote.

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Robert Purvis was an African American political leader and abolitionist. Robert helped to establish the Library company of colored people as well as the Anti- slavery society in Philadelphia. He served as President of Pennsylvania Anti- slavery society. He was stark opponent of the legislation to ban African American from voting in Pennsylvania. He wrote an appeal in 1838. He was the president of organizer for the Vigilant Association of Philadelphia. Purvis' house was known as "safe house" because he would sheltered the runaway slaves.

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Charlotte Forten Grimke- Jess Raskauskas

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Charlotte Forten Grimke- Jess Raskauskas

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(1837-1914)
Charlotte Forten Grimke was born free to a family of abolitionists in Pennsylvania, and worked for her whole life trying to end slavery.  She went to grammar school with white students, and joined the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society in secondary school. She was then hired to teach students in Massachusetts, and was probably the first African American woman to be hired as a teacher. In 1862, she decided to teach in North Carolina to help the anti-slave cause. She married Francis J. Grimke at the age of 41 and had a baby, who died as an infant. She is remembered for her journals, which she kept for all of her life, beginning in childhood, which translate to us now how passionate she truly was about slavery. She was also active in the women's rights movement.

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Anna Dickinson was born to the Philadelphia Quakers. She wrote a letter to the newspaper The Liberator to start her activism early at the age of 13. She gave her first major speech early in 1861. She lost her job at the Mint when she publicly criticized the Union strategies. Her popularity grew with more than 5,000 people crowding in New York's Cooper Institute to hear her speak. Her career improved a lot when the Republican leaders in congress invited her to speak.

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Daniel Hughes was a conductor, station master, and agent in the Underground Railroad. He was born in 1804 in Oswego County, New York and died in 1880 Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He was based in Loyalsock Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. He would hide runaway slaves in his cargo barge when he transported lumber from the Susquehanna bank back to Williamsport, where he provided shelter for the slaves and then helped them get to freedom in Canada.

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James Miller McKim was a Presbyterian minister and a full time abolitionist. His ministry got him involved in the abolition movement in 1833. He attended the Philadelphia Conference which formed the American Anti-Slavery Society. A year later he gave his first anti-slavery speech at his church and started the Carlisle Anti-Slavery society. He was also a supporter of the Underground Railroad and helped assist many court cases after the Fugitive Slave Law passed. During the Civil War, he founded the Philadelphia Port Royal Relief committee to help provide resources for free and liberated slaves of Port Royal. He also found The Nation, a newspaper published in New York that helped support the interests of newly freed men. His actions along with other abolitionists impacted history.

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Stevens was a politician, more specifically a republican who was fiercely against slavery. Thaddeus was very involved in the underground railroad, as he helped runaway slaves get to Canada. He attempted to secure the rights of African Americans during the reconstruction era. He played a major part in financing the civil war as he was so passionate about blacks getting their rights. To add to his abolitionist behaviour, Stevens helped draft the 14th amendment which said that all people born in the United States were to be given full and equal benefits of all laws.

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Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 - August 11, 1868) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, in opposition to U.S.

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Anthony Benezet was a French-American Abolitionist, who founded one of the worlds first anti-slavery societies. Anthony was a Quaker teacher and educator at a children's school. Also he started an evening school for African American children in his home for twenty years without pay. He joined the outlawing Quaker slave holding which expelled slave-holding Quakers in 1776. Also he wrote anti-slavery articles in the newspapers to oppose slave trade.