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Octavius V. Catto was an accomplished shortstop, born in Charleston, South Carolina on February 22, 1839. Both his mother and his father were from prestigious families. After moving from Charleston to Philadelphia in 1850, Catto's parents were able to offer him a great education; he was able to graduate from what's now known as Cheney University as valedictorian. He worked to raise troops under the U.S. War Department when the confederates invaded, led efforts to gain equal access to public transportation, and worked tirelessly to get Pennsylvania to ratify the 15th amendment.

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He assisted in the underground railroad. He also wrote a book that portrayed the struggles and travels in the slave communites. He was known for being a good writer. doctor, and a well known abolitionist.
Martin Delany (1812-1885)

-BY: Abigaelle Auguste

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Jennett Rowland Johnson was an abolitionist and was born in 1784. She brought up and was raised in  Quaker faith. Jennett's parents joined the Quaker faith and freed three slaves. Her Quaker belief is the likely root to her strong values regarding human dignity. Jennett married Samuel Johnson in 1805. Samuel's house was brought down through generations. Jennett served head of house hold in the Johnson House for 71 years. She provided a safe haven at the Johnson House. Neighbors and Visiters knew her as warm hospitality. The hospitality was extended to the travel-weary Freedom Seekers along the Underground Railroad. Her house was visited by other abolitionists. I believe she used the Johnson House to hide passing through slaves seeking for freedom. Because of other abolitionists they would have meetings about different plans and make transportation easier for freedom seekers.
-Alyssa Young

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Jennett Rowland Johnson was an abolitionist and was born in 1784. She brought up and was raised in  Quaker faith. Jennett's parents joined the Quaker faith and freed three slaves. Her Quaker belief is the likely root to her strong values regarding human dignity. Jennett married Samuel Johnson in 1805. Samuel's house was brought down through generations. Jennett served head of house hold in the Johnson House for 71 years. She provided a safe haven at the Johnson House. Neighbors and Visiters knew her as warm hospitality. The hospitality was extended to the travel-weary Freedom Seekers along the Underground Railroad. Her house was visited by other abolitionists. I believe she used the Johnson House to hide passing through slaves seeking for freedom. Because of other abolitionists they

-Alyssa Young

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Martin Delany was a African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician and writer. He was born on Charles town on May 1812. He was also one of the first three black people admitted to Harvard medical school. In Chatham, he assi

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Andrew Curtin (April 22, 1817- October 7, 1894) was a U.S lawyer and politician. He served as the governor of Pennsylvania(1861-1867) during the civil war. He helped rally support  for President Abraham Lincoln and the union cause. He also helped solidify the key role that Pennsylvania played in preserving the union. In 1860 he was part of a "People's Party" comprised of republicans allied with Whigs and Democrats who favored Republican policies of high tariff, free public land, but were conservative on issues of slavery in order to avoid war.

-La-Shainnia Peaker

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William Wright was the son of a founder of Columbia, PA in 1726. He was an "uncompromising hater of slavery" and he later became one of the first established agents of the Under Ground Railroad. This set up a network for escaping slaves in Columbia. An author of an Under Ground Railroad novel said Wright,"hitting on the idea of passing fugitives along from one home to another at intervals of 10 to 20 miles with other designated friends to pilot in between." His network involved Robert Loney, who was a free black man, who ferried fugitives across the Susquehanna and led them to the care of Wright.
- Gianna Girini

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Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868) was an American politician that opposed slavery and discrimination towards African-Americans and sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, in opposition to President Andrew Jackson. As an important member of the New Republican Party, Stevens became actively involved in the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves escape to Canada. The abolition of slavery slowly became Steven's primary political focus and, as a result, he emerged as one of the nation's most militant Radical Republicans. He publicly condemned the Confederacy and even initiated the exclusion of traditional Southern senators and representatives from a congressional meeting in 1865. By 1866, the Radical Republicans had taken significant control of Congress, due to Stevens's leadership. Their work largely set the course for Reconstruction in the South. Following the Civil War, Stevens served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, and played an important role in drafting both the 14th Amendment and the Reconstruction Act of 1867. The 14th Amendment—prohibiting local and state governments from depriving citizens of "life, liberty or property," among other important protections for citizens—later served as a basis for civil rights legislation.

-Steven Huang

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He's on top of city hall lol

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Richard Allen was a Minister, writer, and abolitionist, born in  1760. He was born into slavery, and was sold away from his mother at a young age.  He later purchased his freedom for $2,000, and joined St. George's  Episcopal Church. He later founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church. This was a stop in the underground railroad, and he was then ordained a minister, becoming the first African American ordained in the ministry of the Methodist church. He started a boycott where people would only buy products of non-slave labor, and he influenced later abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. He died in 1831.
-Ava Osada

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Quakers in general stood for equality and believed that everyone was equal therefore everyone should be treated with respect and like they are actual human beings.

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1788-1868
James Mott was a Quaker leader  educator, and businessman as well as an advocate for anti-slavery. Then the Mott’s were Hicksite Quakers, which frowned upon any connection to the slave trade, and by 1830 James Mott transitioned into the selling of woolen textiles which were produced free of any slave labor. James Mott was active in the anti-slavery movement, and was involved in many of the same events and conventions that his wife Lucretia was involved in. Together, him and his wife formed the Philadelphia Free Produce Society. This society encouraged the establishment of free-produce stores that sold products made free of slave labor, and helped to educate the public about the boycott.
-M.Snyder

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Jane Swisshelm was a journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women rights activist who also wrote for newspapers. She worked for the federal government in DC  while Andrew Johnson was president. She was later fired after her last newspaper, Reconstructionist,  after a lot of her public criticism. One way that she could play a role with the helping of slaves is since she wrote newspapers, she could get word out somehow about how to escape, and secret codes. Also, she could write anti-slavery articles that would enlighten people about the true horrors of slavery.
-Nia F

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Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 - July 22, 1884) was an American journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate. She was active as a writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a publisher and editor in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she founded a string of newspapers and regularly wrote for them.

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Daniel Hughes was a mixed raced (mulatto) man who was a conductor, agent and station master.  Daniel's home was located in a hallow in the mountains north of Williamsport and owned a barge. He transported lumber to Maryland and other locations. He died in 1880 in Pennsylvania.

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Benjamin Franklin wrote abolitionist pamphlets later in his life. He was also a Quaker . He wanted to abolish all slavery and end the slave trade. He petitioned the Congress to abolish the slave trade, but pro-slavery congressmen shut it down. He fought against slavery .

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Benjamin Lundy was a Quaker abolitionist in New Jersey. He established the first society dedicated to the abolition of slavery. He established several anti-slavery newspapers. He gave several speeches in the North to educate people on slavery. Lundy was threatened and almost beat to death for trying to convince people to help abolish slavery because they thought it would decline their quality of life and they wouldn't have jobs if slavery was abolished. He wrote his newspapers in Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
-Corinne Anderson

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1766-1842 James Forten was a born a free man. He became interested in politics and supported the issues of Women’s suffrage, and equal rights for African Americans. He was the leader in organizing a petition that called for congress to emancipate all slaves. In 1817, he joined with Richard Allen to form the Convention of Color.
~Antoinette Iannacone

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Absalom Jones was an African American abolitionist. He founded a congregation in 1794, which helped him to become the first African American to become a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States in 1804. Absalom Jones was a clergyman, meaning he was a very important formal leader in his religion. Absalom participated in the first group of African Americans to petition the U.S. congress, their petition related to the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act, which they criticized for being cruel and brutal because it was criminal to kidnap free blacks and force them into slavery. He wanted the Fugitive Slave Act to disappear, but The House of Representatives declined the petition. Two years later, Absalom submitted a similar petition, but it was also declined.
-Juliana Haigh

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Robert Purvis was born in Charleston, North Carolina with a rich father and a free black woman as his parents. As he went on with his life, he married an african american women. When Purvis's father passed away, he went on to fully commit to help the abolishment of slavery. He join the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee which helped closely with underground railroad.
Solomon Sulonma

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William Still was an free-born abolitionist, writer and conductor of the Underground Railroad. He had taught himself how to read and write at a time where laws were established prohibiting Blacks from doing so. In 1872 he self-published The Underground Railroad, a documentation of stories from former African slaves, which was exhibited in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. He had assisted hundreds of slaves to escape from slavery, including his brother, Peter Still. Afterwards, he kept records concerning resistance to slavery by running away. Expressing great interest in helping black youths, he provided an orphanage and a YMCA for African Americans. Alongside all of this, he became one of Philadelphia’s most successful black businessmen.
__________Charles Kamara

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Henry Box was born in either 1815 or 1816. He was born and worked on a plantation call Hermitage in Louisa County, Virginia. At 15 he was sent to a Tobacco farm in Richmond. Brown was married and had three children while a slave. Brown's owner sold his wife and his children to different owners. With the help of James C. A Smith a free man and Samuel Smith Brown devised a plan to ship himself to Philadelphia where he was met by Passmore Williamson and William Still.

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Charlotte Forten Grimke was an African American anti slavery activist, poet and educator. She grew up in Philadelphia with her abolitionist family.  Charlotte worked for all of her life trying to end slavery. She also tried to create as much equality between blacks and whites as possible until her death in 1914. She was one of the first black teachers to decide to go down South to attempt to educate the slaves and former slaves. Charlotte also is remembered for her journals, which she kept throughout her life. Charlotte Grimke helped the cause of antislavery during her life and was one of the most influential civil rights and social justice supporters. -Shamera Caldwell

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Benjamin Rush was a professor in chemistry and was Vice President of the American Philosophical Society. He was a devout Christian. He fought for education. He also joined the Pennsylvania Abolition Society because of his passion in the abolition of slavery. However, he still owned a slave.

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Lucretia Mott was a Quaker, Abolitionist and a Women's rights activist . She wanted to reform the position of women in society when she was excluded from the World Anti- Slavery Convention. Like many Quakers she believed that slavery was evil. Her along with many of her fellow Quakers boycotted slave made products such as cotton cloth and sugar cane. She managed her household budget in a way in which her and her husband could extend hospitality to guests, like fugitive slaves. Mott and other women helped by organizing anti slave fairs, to raise awareness and funding for the movement. During one anti slavery convention a mob destroyed the meeting place, as a result Mott and the white and black women delegates linked arms to exit the building safely through the crowd. Afterward, the mob targeted her home and Black institutions and neighborhoods in Philadelphia.Her ancestry links her to the Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

-Jennine Buchanan

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Francis Daniel Pastorius was the founder, leader, and lawmaker of Germantown, Philadelphia. He converted to Quaker beliefs because, like William Penn, he believed in a religious safe haven. He studied law in Germany, and became a gardener, writer, and poet. While not directly involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade, he did draft the first protest against slavery in America in 1688.

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Anthony Benezet was born in Saint Quentin, Aisne on January 31st, 1713. He began teaching in Germantown and in 1750 began giving night classes to black slaves. Benezet was known as being a firm opponent of slavery; he found one of the first anti-slavery societies. Benezet sat up his own school in 1754 which later helped him find the Negro School in Philadelphia for African American children. Since he was able to give this opportunity to the children, abolitionists sympathizers  taught at Benezet's school. Unfortunately, Anthony Benezet passed away on May 3rd, 1784 but he was able to a make a difference into some of these children's lives.
-Helena Qato

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Chandler was a poet and writer from Philadelphia. During the time that Chandler lived in Philadelphia, she was apart of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. She was an active participant in the boycott of good produced by slave labor. Elizabeth Chandler also introduced the most famous abolitionist images. It's a kneeling woman slave in chains and it says "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister". Elizabeth's poems were noticed by Benjamin Lundy who invited her to write for his periodical. She used her appeal to women to demand better treatment for Native Americans and for the immediate emancipation of slaves. She used sympathy towards women slaves being ripped away from their children and husbands as a way to  grab the attention of her female readers. After she moved to Michigan she established the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society.
- Maddie Lind

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William Whipper was a man of wealth who used it in his fight for moral reform and the abolitionist movement. He was involved in the Philomatheon Institute of Philadelphia that included big names like Frederick Douglass and Charles Burleigh Purvis. Whipper used his assets to aid the antislavery movement and he helped runaway slaves escape to freedom. He also operated a major Underground Railroad station. As a supporter of antislavery, Whipper advocated for nonviolence. He also is a co-founder of the American Moral Reform Society.  - Victoria Howard

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Burris moved to the safe city of Philadelphia to only make risky trips back and forth to the South to free other African Americans from slavery. He started working in the Underground Railroad in 1845. He was captured whilst helping a woman and was sentenced to 14 months in jail. However that wasn't his only punishment, he was sentenced to be auctioned off into slavery. He was then purchased by a local abolitionist to keep him from going South. He then found himself with his family once again and never ventured South again.
_Shardai McNair

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Anna  became one of the first woman to work for the U.S. Federal  Government by working at U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. She made  her first speech as a Quaker in 1861 called  “The Rights and Wrongs of Women.” She made many war speeches . she was invited by Republican leaders in congress to make speeches.

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Passmore Williamson was born Feb. 23, 1822. He moved to Philadelphia and he drew up legal documents for transferring land, such as deeds and leases. When he was 20 years old he became an  abolitionist. He was put in prison for not giving up the whereabouts of a slave. The whites wanted to make an example out of him, meanwhile, it was becoming quite clear that his imprisonment was not aiding the pro-slavery cause. Wheeler withdrew his complaint on November 3, 1855, and Williamson was released from prison.