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A signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator. He purchased a slave named William Grubber in 1776. Rush still owned Grubber when he joined the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1784. When bought, Grubber was a child but was later freed by Benjamin. Rush was the first to believe that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a "possession of demons." He later died of Typhus fever.

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Born in October 28, 1842 and died October 22, 1923. She spoke on abolitionism and women's rights. She grew up in poverty and went to school at Friends' Select. When Anna was 14, her article William Llyod Garrison's The Liberator. In 1860, she talked about Anti-Slavery society in Pennsylvania. In 1862, she had a position at the United States mint in Philly. She was fired after publicly accusing General George B. McClellan of treason in the loss of the Battle of the Ball's Bluff. Once she devoted herself to a speaker's platform, a lot of her work involved the Republican Party. She addressed a gathering involving President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. After the Civil War, Dickinson talked about "Reconstruction" across the country. She talked about the harsh treatment in the South.

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Ben Franklin was born in Massachusetts on January 17, 1706. He was well known to be one of the Founding Fathers. At one point, Franklin owned slaves and thought African slaves were inferior to the white Europeans but questioned his beliefs when he visited a school where African children were being taught. Around 1785, he joined and eventually became president of an abolitionist group in Pennsylvania.

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Born in 1804, died in 1880. Owner of barge on the Pennsylvania canal and transported lumber from Williamsport on the west branch Susquehanna river to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He hid runaway slaves in the hold of his barge on his return trip up the sash for Susquehanna River till like Lycoming county, where he provided shelter to runaways on his property near the Loyalsock Township border with Williamsport before they loved further north and to eventual freedom in Canada. He was a man of mixed/racial background. The ceanus of 1850 designated him as a mulatto. He was atleast part Mohawk. His work on the river and canals gave him a oppertunity to take an important role in the Underground Railroad. His property in the hills north of Williamsport was in a densely wooded area that was covered with vines. A series of caves under the Hughes property provided further cover for the runaway slaves. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 allowed slave catchers to pursue runaway slaves into the Northern States when they had been previously. Allowing slave catchers to pursue runaways into the northern states made life more dangerous and difficult for all conductors on the Underground Railroad, including the Hudges.
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Mr.James cool. Miller was a graduate from Dickinson College and was one of the great civil rights advocates of the nineteenth century. He became an abolitionist in 1830 (at the age of 20) after reading a pamphlet by William Lloyd Garrison. He joined his abolitionist movement, and met a variety of other abolitionists, later, he became the leader of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and helped to organize Underground Railroad, assisting runaway slaves in their journey. He traveled the North to spread the word about his ideas.

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1/4/1789 - 8/22/1839
BEnjamin Lundy was an American Quaker Abolitinist. Founded the abolisnist movement, and was the 1st one.  He created Anti-SLavery Newspapers and Started the Humane Society. He traveled throughout Missuri, Ohio, tennesee and pennsylvania to spread his movement. He also took apart in many anti-slavery conventions. He died when he was 50 due to a fever in Lowell, and was buried in Putnam County Illnois at a Quaker Cemetery.

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Jennett Rowland Johnson was born in 1784 to John and Sarah Rowland. They were all quakers. she is anti-slavery, an abolitionist. Jennett married Samuel Johnson and they moved into the house on the corner of Washington Lane and Germantown Avenue. she had 12 children and was head of the house hold. people say that their house was known amongst neighbors for its warmth and hospitality. Her house was one of the places for the underground railroad.  she died in 1876. her children are also anti-slavery

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Octavius Catto was born on February 22, 1839 in Charleston, SC and died on October 10, 1871 in Philadelphia, PA. He is most known for being a black educator at Institute for Colored Youth, an intellectual, and civil rights activist. After the Civil War, Catto joined Frederick Douglass and others to form a committee to sign up black men to fight for the Union. Catto also became a corresponding secretary for the Pennsylvania Equal Rights League and was Vice President of the State Convention of Colored People. He fought for the desegregation of trolley cars in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, Catto was shot in the middle of the street by Frank Kelly who wasn't convicted of his crime .

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Martin Robison Delany was brought into this world on May 6, 1812, in Charlestown, Virginia. He was an African American abolitionist of the antebellum, as well as a physician and editor. His decrees of black nationalism would shape the view of racial pride for years to come.

In his early life, he moved to Pennsylvania with his family in search of quality education. At 19, he worked days in PIttsburgh while studying nights at an African American Church. He became involved in several racial improvement groups, and scored a job as a physician’s assistant in the South.

Returning to Pittsburgh, he became an editor that published blacks’ grievances that gained enough reputation to circulate white press. From 1846 to 1849 he worked with Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York. He then went back to pursue his medical career, which led to his admittance to Harvard Medical School; He was one of the first blacks to do so and become a lead Pittsburgh physician.

After moving back to the U.S. from Canada to fight in the Civil War, Delany was made a major and was assigned to Hilton Head  Island, South Carolina to recruit former slaves for the North.

He died in Xenia, Ohio on January 24, 1885.

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Andrew curtin was the 15th Governor of Pennsylvania in office from January 15th 1861 - January 15 ,1867 . Curtin was a member of the U.S house of representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th district , in office from March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887 , also was United States Ambassador to Russia in office from  October 28, 1869 – July 1, 1872

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Andrew curtin was the 15th Governor of Pennsylvania in office from January 15th 1861 - January 15 ,1867 . Curtin was a member of the U.S house of representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th district , in office from March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887 , also was United States Ambassador to Russia in office from  October 28, 1869 – July 1, 1872

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Daniel was born in 1804 and died in 1880. Owner of barge on the Pennsylvania Canal and Transported lumber from Williamsport on the West Branch Susquehanna River to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He his runaway slaves in the hold of his barge on his return trip up the Susquehanna River to Lycoming County, where he provided shelter to ruaways on his property near the Loyalsock

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James Forten was born and raised in Philadelphia. He was an African American abolitionist and wealthy businessman. When his father died, he dropped out of school and asked his father old friend for help. He got an apprenticeship with the friend and later became the manager of the sail loft. When the friend died, James Forten bought the sail loft and turned it into one of the largest sail producers in Philadelphia, on the waterfront of the Delaware River.
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John Hunn was born on June 25th 1818 in Delaware. He was a Quaker and an abolitionist who owned a plantation. He fought along with Samuel Burris, another famous Delware abolitionsit. Notably, John Hunn gave food and shelter to the Hawkins Family (A wife and husband and their six children) who were from Maryland. In 1845 he got caught by Bounty Hunters who tracked the Hawkins  to Hunn's farm. Thomas Garret got involved and was able to get the family to Pennsylvania. Unfortunately though, Hunn and Thomas Garrett were found guilty for breaking the Fugitive Slave Act and were fined  4,500 dollars each (500 per fugitive held). He lost his business and his property. They soon moved in the early 1850s to another area in Delaware where Hunn continued to be involved in the Underground Railroad.

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Passmore Williamson was a businessman and abolitionist from Philadelphia and Secretary of the PA Anti-Slavery Society. He was involved with Henry “Box” Brown’s escape from slavery by having Henry, nailed inside a crate, be sent to his business place through private express delivery service from Richmond, VA to Philadelphia, PA. The next day, Passmore and other members of the Anti-Slavery Society opened the crate with Henry inside. In 1852, Williamson and the Anti-Slavery Society helped the defenders/black men in the Christiana Resistance, and was tried for treason by the PA District Court but was acquitted shortly after. He also helped Jane Johnson and her sons escape slavery and gain freedom in 1855. But, Williamson was caught and was arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Law. After his time in prison, he still continued to be involved in abolitionism.

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He was a Quaker leader, teacher, and merchant as well as an anti-slavery activist.At Nine Partners he met his future wife Lucretia Coffin who was a student and later a teacher's aide.His resistance to slavery by Hick-site Quaker, combined with growing calls to end slavery by boycotting slave products, motivated James to turn to slave trade, created without slave labor.James Mott was an active abolitionist, dedicated his life to abolition and the free produce movement.In 1833, he attended the founding meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, and signed the convention's declaration.

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Born in Burlington County, New Jersey. William Still had little formal education, but studied whenever he could. In 1844, William moved to Philadelphia. In 1847, he found a job as a clerk and janitor for the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. He soon began aiding fugitive slaves, often sheltering them until they could find their way farther north. One fugitive was his older brother, Peter, who had been left behind when his mother escaped forty years earlier. These experiences led William to save careful records about the people he helped. Meanwhile, Still purchased real estate, opened a store selling stoves, and later founded a successful coal business. Before the Civil War, Still had destroyed many of his records about aiding fugitives, because he feared they would be used to prosecute people. -Nia Lynn

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Elizabeth Margret Chandler  (Alexis Hammond)

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Elizabeth Margret Chandler  (Alexis Hammond)

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An American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan; who was the first female writer in the United States to make abolition of slavery her principal theme. She was raised as a Quaker, went to a Quaker school and there she adopted the view of antislavery. She wrote in Benjamin Lundy’s, a well known abolitionist and publisher, periodical. She also edited his Abolishment Journal. She moved to Michigan in 1830 and lived on a farm they called Hazlebank. Although not very active in it, Chandler established the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1832 with her friend and neighbor Laura Smith Haviland, while she was still in Philadelphia. That organization established a main link in the Underground Railroad to Canada.

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Robert Purvis was an anti-slavery activist born to a free black mother and a British immigrant cotton merchant. Father moved his family from Charleston to Philadelphia and enrolled Robert and his two brothers in the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society's School. When Purvis died, he left the school a substantial fortune. He helped abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison establish the American Anti-Slavery Society Philadelphia, and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1852 to 1857, he chaired the General Vigilance Committee which provided direct assistance to runaway slaves.

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Richard Allen was born a slave on February 14, 1760 but purchased his freedom in 1780. He was an educator, writer, and a minister. Allen founded the first national black church in the United States, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, located on 6th street, in Philadelphia. In the basement of this church, Allen hid slaves that were seeking freedom. Allen died on March 26,1831.

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Thomas Garrett was an american abolitionist. He was born August 21st, 1789 and died January 25th, 1871. He was a leader in the underground railroad before the Civil War. Garrett was born into a landowning Quaker family. He worked with William Still in Philadelphia and John Hunn further down the Delmarva Peninsula. He had helped 2,700 enslaved people to their journey to freedom. While he was growing up he learned to make tools and became a blacksmith from his father.

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Elijah Pennypacker was a Quaker who lived Chester County PA. He was a politician in the Pennsylvania Legislature . He was an activist, and a known abolitionist. His house in Chester County was a stop along the Underground railroad. He was a Quaker minister, and met with his congregation once every month in Villanova PA.

-Jeremy Horan

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Charlotte Forten Grimke was an African American woman born free on Auguest 17, 1837. She’s the granddaughter of James Forten and was raised to be a abolitionist in Philadelphia. She was a poet and an educator who taught freedmen for many years throughout the Civil War in South Carolina. Being an abolitionist and a women’s rights advocate, she used her popular writings and poetry to battle racial and gender inequality. She would also work alongside other abolitionist and met Harriet Tubman in 1863. In 1872 she taught at a prepatory school in Washinton DC.

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John Woolman was a Quaker preacher, and abolitionist. He became an independent and successful tradesman. He refused to write the part of a customer’s will which would have transferred ownership of a slave. Instead, he convinced the owner to let the slave free. Woolman published “Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes”. Over time, and working on a personal level, he individually convinced many Quaker slaveholders to free their slaves. As Woolman traveled, when he accepted hospitality from a slaveholder, he insisted on paying the slaves for their work in attending him.

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Thaddeus Stevens was born on April 4 1792 in Vermont. He was born into poverty, having to work for everything he accomplished. was a member of the U.S 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 fought to secure their rights during reconstruction.

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Whipper was a successful businessman who played a key role in the antislavery movement as a reformer. He advocated nonviolence and co-founded the American Moral Reform Society, an early African-American abolitionist organization. Born February 22, 1804, to an enslaved African-American house servant and her white owner. In 1834 he opened a free labor and temperance grocery store. His support of the temperance movement was motivated by liquor's destructive effect on Africa and the belief that alcohol consumption was a contributing factor for Africans selling their own people into slavery. In conjunction with his support for the temperance movement, Whipper began actively participating in the antislavery movement as well.
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Absalom Jones was an African American Abolitionist who founded the Free African Society along with Richard Allen because he was unhappy with the discrimination in the local Methodist church  which included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War he was the first African American man to be ordained a priest.

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Lucretia Mott - January 3, 1793- November 11, 1880

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Lucretia Mott - January 3, 1793- November 11, 1880

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Lucretia was a womens right activist, abolitonist, and was religous reformer. She also was strongly opposed to slavery and was a supporter of William Lloyd Garrison and his American Anti-Slavery Society,

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Henry Box Brown was born into slavery and escaped in 1840. He went from Baltimore to Philadelphia in a box that he was shipped in. He then toured the country as a magician and spoke out against slavery and then moved to England in fear of the Fugitve Slave Law.
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Samuel Burris was a free black man who moved to Philadelphia with his family but ventured into the South to rescue slaves. He worked with John Hunn in the underground railroad, saving slaves from Delaware and Maryland. Eventually he was caught, and two of his friends pretended to be traders so they could buy him back and free him for $100. After that he did not return to the south ever again.
-Michael Wills

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Simon Cameron was an American businessman and politician. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and served as United States Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. He was an opponent of slavery.

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Anthony Benezet was a Quaker teacher at Germantown, then a teacher at the Friend's English School of Philadelphia. He joined the Religious Society of Friends in Philadelphia. In 1754, he then made the first public girls school in Philadelphia. He taught poor black children in his home, and eventually made a school for them. He also had a big influence on Thomas Clarkson. He was completely against slavery because he believed it was against christian ideals and lessened a persons humanity.