John Brown (abolitionist)

John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. ^[1]

A More Perfect Union (speech)

"A More Perfect Union" is the name of a speech delivered by then Senator and President Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

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A Nation Torn

A Nation Torn, by Delia Ray, is a child-oriented history of how the American Civil War began.

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A Plea for Captain John Brown

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau.

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Aaron Dwight Stevens

Aaron Dwight Stevens (March 15, 1831 – March 16, 1860) was an American abolitionist and chief military aide to John Brown during Brown's failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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Aaron Van Camp

Aaron Van Camp (June 23, 1816 – September 15, 1892) was an espionage agent for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

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Abolitionism

Abolitionism is a general term which describes the movement to end slavery.

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Abolitionism in the United States

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.

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Akron, Ohio

Akron is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County.

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Albion P. Howe

Albion Parris Howe (March 13, 1818 – January 25, 1897) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War.

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All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)

All Souls Church, Unitarian is a Unitarian Universalist church located at 1500 Harvard Street NW at the intersection of 16th Street, Washington, D.C., roughly where the Mt. Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Adams Morgan neighborhoods of the city meet.

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Allan Pinkerton

Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

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Allstadt House and Ordinary

The Allstadt House and Ordinary was built about 1790 on land owned by the Lee family near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including Phillip Ludwell Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Henry Lee III.

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Alternate Presidents

Alternate Presidents is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books.

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Altona (West Virginia)

Altona, near Charles Town, West Virginia, is a historic farm with an extensive set of subsidiary buildings.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Film Company (2008)

The American Film Company is a film production company founded in 2008 by Joe Ricketts.

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American House (Boston)

The American House (est,1835) was a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Hanover Street.

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Amos Adams Lawrence

Amos Adams Lawrence (July 31, 1814August 22, 1886), the son of philanthropist Amos Lawrence, was a key figure in the United States abolition movement in the years leading up to the Civil War.

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Amos Noë Freeman

Amos Noë Freeman (1809—1893) was an African-American abolitionist, Presbyterian minister and educator.

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Andrew B. Moore

Andrew Barry Moore (March 7, 1807 – April 5, 1873) was the 16th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1857 to 1861, and served as Governor at the outbreak of the American Civil War.

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Andrew Hunter (lawyer)

Andrew H. Hunter (March 22, 1804 – November 21, 1888) was the District Attorney for Charles Town, Virginia, who prosecuted John Brown for the raid on Harpers Ferry.

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.

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Andrew Taylor Still

Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO (August 6, 1828 – December 12, 1917) was the founder of osteopathy and osteopathic medicine.

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Anna Evans Murray

Anna Evans Murray (1857–1955) was an American civic leader, educator, and early advocate of free kindergarten and the training of kindergarten teachers.

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Anna H. Jones

Anna H. Jones (1855 – 1932) was a Canadian-born American clubwoman, suffragist, and educator based in later life in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Anti-racism

Anti-racism includes beliefs, actions, movements, and policies adopted or developed to oppose racism.

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Arabella Chapman

Arabella Chapman (1859–1927) was an African-American woman who is best remembered for being the first student to graduate from upstate New York's Albany School for Educating People of Color, later known as Albany High School.

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Art Deco in the United States

The Art Deco style, which originated in France just before World War I, had an important impact on architecture and design in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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August Bondi

August Bondi (Jewish name Anshl)(July 21, 1833, Vienna, Austria – 1907, United States) was involved in what he called the Border War, but is now usually called Bleeding Kansas, and latter the American Civil War.

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Augustus Washington

Augustus Washington (1820/1821 - June 7, 1875) was an African-American photographer and daguerreotypist, who later in his career emigrated to Liberia.

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Baldwin City, Kansas

Baldwin City is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States about south of Lawrence and west of Gardner.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

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Baltimore Plot

The Baltimore Plot was an alleged conspiracy in late February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln en route to his inauguration.

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Barclay Coppock

Edwin Coppock, Barclay's brother, redirects here. Barclay Coppock (January 4, 1839 – September 4, 1861) was a follower of John Brown and a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War.

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Barrie Stavis

Barrie Stavis (June 16, 1906 – February 2, 2007) was an American playwright.

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Battle Cry of Freedom

The "Battle Cry of Freedom", also known as "Rally 'Round the Flag", is a song written in 1862 by American composer George Frederick Root (1820–1895) during the American Civil War.

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Battle of Black Jack

The Battle of Black Jack took place on June 2, 1856, when anti-slavery forces, led by the noted abolitionist John Brown, attacked the encampment of Henry C. Pate near Baldwin City, Kansas.

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Battle of Charlestown

The Battle of Charlestown was a small engagement between Confederate cavalry forces under Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden and the Union forces under Col. Benjamin L. Simpson on October 18, 1863, at Charlestown, West Virginia, as part of the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns, resulting in a Confederate victory.

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Battle of Fort Titus

The Battle of Fort Titus was a battle that occurred during conflicts in the Kansas Territory between abolitionist and pro-slavery militias prior to the American Civil War.

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Battle of Osawatomie

The Battle of Osawatomie took place on August 30, 1856 when 250-400 Border Ruffians led by John W. Reid attacked the town of Osawatomie.

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by the American author Herman Melville.

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Beall-Air

Beall-Air, also known as the Colonel Lewis William Washington House, is a two-story stuccoed brick house in classical revival style near Halltown, West Virginia.

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Bill Ayers

William Charles "Bill" Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and a leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Billy McClain

William C. ("Billy") McClain (12 October 1866 – 19 January 1950) was an African-American acrobat, comedian and actor who starred in minstrel shows before World War I. He wrote, produced and directed several major stage and outdoor extravaganzas, and wrote a number of popular songs.

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Black Canadians

Black Canadians is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada.

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Black Riders Liberation Party

The Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP) is a revolutionary black power organization, based in the United States.

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Blakeley (West Virginia)

Blakeley, near Charles Town, West Virginia is also known as the Washington - Chew - Funkhouser House, and was built in 1820 by John Augustine Washington II, great-nephew of George Washington and son of John Augustine Washington.

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Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.

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Border Ruffian

In Kansas, Border Ruffians was the name applied to pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas Territory to force the acceptance of slavery there.

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Border War (Kansas–Missouri rivalry)

The Border War (alternatively, Border Showdown) is the name of the rivalry between athletic teams from the University of Kansas and University of Missouri, the Kansas Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers respectively.

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Boston Vigilance Committee

The Boston Vigilance Committee (1841-1861) was an abolitionist organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts, to protect escaped slaves from being kidnapped and returned to slavery in the South.

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Bowie knife

A Bowie knife is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by James Black in the early 19th century for Jim Bowie, who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight.

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Bristolville, Ohio

Bristolville is an unincorporated community in central Bristol Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States.

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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a 2004 American mockumentary that is directed by Kevin Willmott.

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Cedar County, Iowa

Cedar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Ceredo, West Virginia

Ceredo is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River.

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Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States.

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Charles Augustus Wheaton

Charles Augustus Wheaton (1809–1882) was a businessman and major figure in the central New York state abolitionist movement and Underground Railroad, as well as other progressive causes.

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Charles L. Robinson

Charles Lawrence Robinson (July 21, 1818 – August 17, 1894) was the first Governor of Kansas.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Charles Ryan (mayor)

Charles V. Ryan (born) is a former mayor of the city Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Charles Town, West Virginia

Charles Town, officially the City of Charles Town, is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and is also the county seat.

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Charles Turner Torrey

Charles Turner Torrey (November 21, 1813 - May 9, 1846) was a leading American abolitionist.

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Chatham-Kent

Chatham-Kent (2016 population 101,647).

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Chiefly About War Matters

"Chiefly About War Matters", originally credited "by a Peaceable Man", is an 1862 essay by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Chilembwe uprising

The Chilembwe uprising was a rebellion against British colonial rule in Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi) in January 1915, led by John Chilembwe, an American-educated Baptist minister, whose radical evangelical views of racial injustice may also have been influenced by millenarian Christians.

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Christopher Memminger

Christopher Gustavus Memminger (born Christoph Gustav Memminger; January 9, 1803 – March 7, 1888) was a German-born American politician and one of the founding fathers of the Confederate States.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government or occupying international power.

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Claudius Smith

Claudius Smith (1736 – January 22, 1779) was a Loyalist guerrilla leader during the American Revolution.

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Clement Vallandigham

Clement Laird Vallandigham (July 29, 1820June 17, 1871) was an Ohio politician and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War.

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Cleveland in the American Civil War

Cleveland, Ohio, was an important Northern city during the American Civil War.

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Cloudsplitter

Cloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown.

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Colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, colonel is the most senior field grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and immediately below the rank of brigadier general.

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Colonel Simon Perkins

"Colonel" Simon Perkins (1805–1887) was an American businessman, farmer, state senator, and entrepreneur.

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Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps

The Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps concerns both the actual stamps and covers used during the American Civil War, and the later postage celebrations.

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Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry

Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry, locally designated the Berkeley Border Guards, was an antebellum Virginia militia company and then a company of the 2nd Virginia Infantry, a Confederate infantry unit during the American Civil War.

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Cooper Union speech

The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City.

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Court Square

Court Square in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, is a park and historic district in the heart of Springfield's urban Metro Center neighborhood.

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Courtroom sketch

A courtroom sketch is an artistic depiction of the proceedings in a court of law.

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Crittenden Compromise

The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal introduced by United States Senator John J. Crittenden (Constitutional Unionist of Kentucky) on December 18, 1860.

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Dangerfield Newby

Dangerfield Newby (1815 – October 16, 1859) was the oldest of John Brown's raiders, one of five black raiders, and the first of his men to die at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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Dangerous Songs!?

Dangerous Songs!? is the third studio album by Pete Seeger and was released in 1966 on the Columbia Records label.

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Daniel Leasure

Daniel Leasure (March 18, 1819 – October 10, 1886) was an American soldier and physician who served as a colonel and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Daniel Leavitt

Daniel Leavitt (November 16, 1813 – July 27, 1859) was an early American inventor who, with his partner Edwin Wesson, patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols.

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Danville, Virginia

Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, located on the fall line of the Dan River.

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David A. Weisiger

David Addison Weisiger (December 23, 1818 – February 23, 1899) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War (Civil War).

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David Bustill Bowser

David Bustill Bowser (January 16, 1820, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 30, 1900, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an African-American ornamental artist and portraitist.

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David Dorfman (choreographer)

David Dorfman (born 1955) is a dancer, choreographer, musician, activist and teacher.

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David Hunter Strother

David Hunter Strother (September 26, 1816 – March 8, 1888) was an American journalist, artist, soldier, innkeeper, politician and diplomat.

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David Karsner

David Fulton "Dave" Karsner (1889–1941) was an American journalist, writer, and socialist political activist.

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David S. Reynolds

David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian noted for his writings on American literature and culture.

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De Vries, Ibarra & Co.

De Vries, Ibarra & Co. (c. 1864-1870) were "importers of paintings, engravings, bronzes, and works of art in general," "publishers of busts and statuary," and "importers and publishers of books in foreign languages." Based in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1860s the firm kept a shop in the Albion Hotel building on Beacon Street (corner Tremont Street), and later on Tremont Street (between West Street and Temple Place).

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December 2

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Denmark Vesey

Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (1767 – July 2, 1822) was a literate, skilled carpenter and leader among African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Dignity (Law & Order)

"Dignity" is the fifth episode in the twentieth season of the American television series Law & Order.

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Diversity of tactics

Diversity of tactics is a phenomenon wherein a social movement makes periodic use of force for disruptive or defensive purposes, stepping beyond the limits of nonviolence, but also stopping short of total militarization.

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Downtown Charles Town Historic District

The Downtown Charles Town Historic District comprises the commercial center of Charles Town, West Virginia.

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Dunavant, Kansas

Dunavant is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States.

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East-Central Kansas

East-Central Kansas is a region of Kansas.

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Edmonia Lewis

Mary Edmonia Lewis (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907) was an American sculptor who worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy.

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Edmund Fuller

Edmund Maybank Fuller (3 March 1914 - 29 January 2001) was an American educator, editor, novelist, historian, and literary critic.

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Edmund Ruffin

Edmund Ruffin (January 5, 1794 – June 18, 1865) was a wealthy Virginia planter and slaveholder, who in the 1850s was a political activist with the so-called Fire-Eaters.

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Edna Dean Proctor

Edna Dean Proctor (September 18, 1829 – December 18, 1923) was an American author.

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Edward Atkinson (activist)

Edward Atkinson (February 10, 1827 – December 11, 1905) was an economist, inventor, and a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League.

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Edward Augustus Brackett

Edward Augustus Brackett (October 1, 1818 – March 15, 1908) was a self-taught American sculptor, author, and conservationist.

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Edward Harris (Rhode Island)

Edward Harris (1801–1872) was a wool manufacturer, abolitionist, temperance supporter, and philanthropist who was the founder of the Woonsocket Harris Public Library, the first public library in Rhode Island, and the Harris Institute, which now houses the Woonsocket City Hall.

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Edward John Trelawny

Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

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Edward Ord

Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 – July 22, 1883) was an American engineer and United States Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War.

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Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren

Edward Tiffin Harrison Warren (June 19, 1829 – May 5, 1864) commanded a Virginia infantry regiment and occasionally held interim brigade command in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist.

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Elizabeth Buffum Chace

Elizabeth Buffum Chace (9 December 1806 – 12 December 1899) was an American activist in the Anti-Slavery, Women's Rights, and Prison Reform Movements of the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.

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Elizabeth Smith Miller

Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822–1911), known as 'Libby' was an advocate and financial supporter of the women’s rights movement.

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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

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Erick Hawkins

Frederick Hawkins known as Erick Hawkins (April 23, 1909November 23, 1994) was an American modern-dance choreographer and dancer.

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Exodusters

Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1872.

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Fabre Geffrard

Guillaume Fabre Nicolas Geffrard (September 19, 1806 – December 31, 1878) was a mulatto general in the Haitian army and President of Haiti from 1859 until his deposition in 1867.

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February 1917

The following events occurred in February 1917.

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Female slavery in the United States

The institution of slavery in North America existed from the earliest years of the colonial period until 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment permanently abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.

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Fire on the Mountain (Bisson novel)

Fire on the Mountain is a 1988 novel by the American author Terry Bisson.

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First Church of Christ, Congregational (Springfield, Massachusetts)

First Church of Christ, Congregational, or Old First Church, is a historic church at 50 Elm Street in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia

The First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia is a Unitarian Universalist congregation located at 2125 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord is a 1994 novel by George MacDonald Fraser.

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Flashman and the Dragon

Flashman and the Dragon is a 1985 novel by George MacDonald Fraser.

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Folk hero

A folk hero or national hero is a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with the sole salient characteristic being the imprinting of his or her name, personality and deeds in the popular consciousness of a people.

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Fort Bain

Fort Bain (also called "Fort Bourbon") was a log house in the Kansas Territory built in 1857 by John Brown and his associate Captain Oliver P. Bain (or Baynes).

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Frances Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author.

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Francis Jackson (abolitionist)

Francis Jackson (1789–1861) was an abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Frank Foster (musician)

Frank Benjamin Foster III (September 23, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer.

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1855 and published until 1922.

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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (December 15, 1831 – February 24, 1917) was an American journalist, author, and reformer.

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Franklin County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)

The current Franklin County Courthouse in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, built in 1865, is the third courthouse building on the site.

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Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio

Franklin Township is a civil township located in Portage County, Ohio, United States.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry

Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry (1872 – October 23, 1943) founded the Colored Big Sister Home for Girls in 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.

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Gary Mark Smith

Gary Mark Smith (born April 27, 1956) is an American street photographer.

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George C. Gregory

George Craghead Gregory (July 17, 1878 – August 25, 1956) was an American attorney, businessman, historian, and author.

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George DeBaptiste

George DeBaptiste (– February 22, 1875) was a prominent African-American conductor on the Underground Railroad in southern Indiana and Detroit, Michigan.

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George Henry Hoyt

George Henry Hoyt (November 25, 1837 – February 2, 1877) was an abolitionist and attorney for John Brown.

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George Luther Stearns

George Luther Stearns (January 8, 1809 – April 9, 1867) was an American industrialist and merchant, as well as an abolitionist and a noted recruiter of black soldiers for the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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George Simeon Mwase

George Simeon Mwase (c. 1880–1962) was a government clerk and later businessman and politician in colonial Nyasaland.

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George T. Downing

George T. Downing (December 30, 1819 – July 21, 1903) was an abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights while building a successful career as a restaurateur in New York city; Newport, Rhode Island; and Washington, DC.

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Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is the presidential museum and resting place of Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States (1974–1977), and his wife Betty Ford, located near the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874) was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist.

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Gibson-Todd House

The Gibson-Todd House was the site of the hanging of John Brown, the abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia before the opening of the American Civil War.

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Gilead (novel)

Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson that was published in 2004.

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Grace Goulder Izant

Grace Goulder Izant (1893–1984) was an Ohio writer and historian who wrote for the Plain Dealer Magazine and published several books on Ohio history.

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Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)

The Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery is a cemetery for American Civil War veterans in the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon.

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Grand Army of the Republic Hall (Litchfield, Minnesota)

The Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Litchfield, Minnesota is one of many original and authentic Grand Army of the Republic halls remaining in the United States.

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Gray Victory

Gray Victory is a 1988 alternate history novel by Robert Skimin, taking place in an alternate 1866 where the Confederacy won its independence.

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Greersburg Academy

The Greersburg Academy was an institution established by Reverend Thomas Hughes in Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States in 1802.

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Grinnell, Iowa

Grinnell is a city in Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States.

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Harpers Ferry Armory

Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory commissioned by the United States government.

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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist.

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Harriet Tubman Day

Harriet Tubman Day is an American holiday in honor of the anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, observed on March 10 in the whole country, and in the U.S. state of New York.

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Harvey B. Hurd

Harvey B. Hurd (1828–1906) was a prominent Chicago lawyer, abolitionist, and social reformer.

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Hector Tyndale

Hector Tyndale (a.k.a. George Hector Tyndale) was a Union general during the American Civil War rising to the rank of Brevet Major General of Volunteers.

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Henry A. Wise

Henry Alexander Wise (December 3, 1806 – September 12, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician from Virginia.

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Henry Clarke Wright

Henry Clarke Wright (1797–1870) was an American abolitionist, pacifist, anarchist and feminist, for over two decades a controversial figure.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

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Henry Lischer House

The Henry Lischer House is a historic building located in the Hamburg Historic District in Davenport, Iowa, United States.

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Henry O. Wagoner

Henry O. Wagoner (February 27, 1816 – January 27, 1901) was an abolitionist and civil rights activist in Chicago and Denver.

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Henry T. Titus

Henry Theodore Titus (February 13, 1823 – August 7, 1881) was a pioneer, soldier of fortune, and the founder of Titusville, Florida.

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Hiram Rhodes Revels

Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827Different sources list his birth year as either 1827 or 1822. – January 16, 1901) was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), and a college administrator.

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Historical characters in the Southern Victory Series

The Southern Victory Series is a series of alternate history novels written by Harry Turtledove.

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History of Cleveland

This article chronicles the history of Cleveland, Ohio.

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History of Falls Church

This article is about the history of Falls Church, an independent city in Virginia, USA, in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

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History of Kansas

The history of Kansas, argued historian Carl L. Becker a century ago, reflects American ideals.

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History of Kent, Ohio

The area now occupied by the city of Kent, Ohio, was previously inhabited by various Native American tribes until the 19th century.

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History of Maryland

The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for England in 1498.

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History of Massachusetts

Massachusetts was first colonized by principally English Europeans in the early 17th century, and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century.

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History of Missouri

The history of Missouri begins with settlement of the region by indigenous people during the Paleo-Indian period beginning in about 12,000 BC.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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History of slavery in Kentucky

The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War.

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History of slavery in Maryland

Slavery in Maryland lasted around 200 years, from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City, Maryland, to the final elimination of slavery in 1864 during the penultimate year of the American Civil War.

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History of slavery in Nebraska

The history of slavery in Nebraska is generally seen as short and limited.

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History of slavery in Texas

The history of slavery in Texas, as a colonial territory, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845, had begun slowly, as the Spanish did not rely on it for labor during their years in Spanish Texas.

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History of Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield, Massachusetts was founded in 1636 as Agawam, the northernmost settlement of the Connecticut Colony.

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History of terrorism

The history of terrorism is a history of well-known and historically significant individuals, entities, and incidents associated, whether rightly or wrongly, with terrorism.

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History of the Southern United States

The history of the Southern United States reaches back hundreds of years and includes the Mississippian people, well known for their mound building.

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History of the United States (1849–65)

Industrialization went forward in the Northwest.

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History of the United States Marine Corps

The history of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) begins with the founding of the Continental Marines on 10 November 1775 to conduct ship-to-ship fighting, provide shipboard security and discipline enforcement, and assist in landing forces.

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History of West Virginia

West Virginia is one of two American states formed during the American Civil War (1861–1865), along with Nevada, and is the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state.

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Holton, Kansas

Holton is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Kansas, United States.

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Horace Pippin

Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught African-American painter.

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Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall

Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall is a group of historic buildings in Plymouth Meeting, Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Hoyt, Kansas

Hoyt is a city in Jackson County, Kansas, United States.

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Hudson, Ohio

Hudson is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Isaac Parsons (American military officer)

Isaac Parsons (January 7, 1814 – April 24, 1862) was an American planter, politician, and military officer in the U.S. state of Virginia (now West Virginia).

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Israel Greene

Israel Greene (June 17, 1824 – May 25, 1909) was a member of the United States Marine Corps and the leader of the company of Marines that captured John Brown during his raid at Harpers Ferry.

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J. C. Furnas

Joseph Chamberlain Furnas (1906–2001) was an American freelance writer.

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J. E. B. Stuart

James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from the U.S. state of Virginia, who later became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War.

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J. Thompson Brown

John Thompson Brown (February 6, 1835 – May 6, 1864) was a Confederate States Army colonel and artillerist in the American Civil War.

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Jacob Collamer

Jacob Collamer (January 8, 1791 – November 9, 1865) was an American politician from Vermont.

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Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life.

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Jaden Smith

Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born July 8, 1998) is an American actor, rapper, singer and songwriter.

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Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai

"Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels; it aired November 27, 2011 on AMC, and was written by Jami O'Brien, directed by Alex Zakrzewski, and produced by Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton, Jeremy Gold, and John Shiban.

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James Batchelder

James Batchelder (1830–1854) was the third United States Marshal to be killed in the line of duty.

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James Best

James Best (born Jewel Franklin Guy; July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015) was an American television, film, character, voice, and stage actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician, whose career spanned seven decades of television.

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James G. Blunt

James Gillpatrick (or Gilpatrick)Collins, Robert, General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory, Pelican Publishing, 2005, p. 15 Blunt (July 21, 1826 – July 27, 1881) was a physician and abolitionist who rose to the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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James H. Burton

James H. Burton (August 17, 1823 – October 18, 1894) was born in Shenandoah Spring, Virginia.

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James Madison Bell

James Madison Bell (April 3, 1826 – 1902) was an African-American poet, orator, and political activist who was involved in the abolitionist movement against slavery.

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James McBride (writer)

James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician.

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James Miller McKim

James Miller McKim (November 10, 1810 – June 13, 1874) was a Presbyterian minister and abolitionist.

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James Mitchell Ashley

James Mitchell Ashley (November 14, 1824September 16, 1896) was an American politician and abolitionist.

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James Montgomery (colonel)

James Montgomery (December 22, 1814 – December 6, 1871) was a Jayhawker during the Bleeding Kansas Affair and a controversial Union colonel during the American Civil War.

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James Murray Mason

James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798April 28, 1871) was a US Representative and US Senator from Virginia.

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James Newton Gloucester

The Reverend James Newton Gloucester was an African-American clergyman and businessman who was a supporter of abolitionist John Brown.

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James Pond (Medal of Honor)

James Burton Pond (June 11, 1838 – June 21, 1903) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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James R. Newby

James R. Newby was a 19th-century African-American missionary to present-day Nigeria, Cameroon, and Liberia.

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James Redpath

James Redpath (August 24, 1833 in Berwick upon Tweed, England - February 10, 1891, in New York, New York) was an American journalist and anti slavery activist.

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James Rood Doolittle

James Rood Doolittle (January 3, 1815July 27, 1897) was an American politician who served as a senator from Wisconsin from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1869.

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James Wallace Black

James Wallace Black (February 10, 1825 – January 5, 1896), known professionally as J.W. Black, was an early American photographer whose career was marked by experimentation and innovation.

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James Williams (ambassador)

James Williams (1796–1869) was an American Minister Resident (Ambassador) to the Ottoman Empire, appointed on January 14, 1858 by President James Buchanan.

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Jared Maurice Arter

Jared Maurice Arter (January 27, 1850 – 1930) was born into slavery, in Jefferson County, West Virginia.

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Jefferson County Courthouse (Charles Town, West Virginia)

The first Jefferson County Courthouse was built in Charles Town, West Virginia, USA, in 1808, on a lot donated by Charles Washington.

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Jefferson County, West Virginia

Jefferson County is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Jefferson, Ohio

Jefferson is a village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.

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Jesse Root Grant

Jesse Root Grant (January 23, 1794 – June 29, 1873) was a farmer, tanner and successful leather merchant who owned tanneries and leather goods shops in several different states throughout his adult life.

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Jewish views on slavery

Jewish views on slavery are varied both religiously and historically.

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John Albion Andrew

John Albion Andrew (May 31, 1818 – October 30, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts.

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John Anthony Copeland Jr.

John Anthony Copeland Jr. (1834–1859) was born a free black in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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John Brown

John Brown may refer to.

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John Brown (biography)

John Brown is a biography written by W. E. B. Du Bois about the abolitionist John Brown.

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John Brown Anti-Klan Committee

The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC) was an anti-racist organization based in the United States.

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John Brown Bell

The John Brown Bell, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, is a distinguished American Civil War-era bell that is often known as the "second-most important bell in American history", after the Liberty Bell.

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John Brown Farm State Historic Site

The John Brown Farm State Historic Site includes the home and final resting place of abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859).

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John Brown House (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)

John Brown House, also known as the Ritner Boarding House, is a historic home located at Chambersburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

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John Brown Junior

John Brown Jr., the eldest son of the abolitionist John Brown, was born in Ohio in July 1821.

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John Brown Museum

The John Brown Museum, also known as the John Brown State Historic Site and John Brown Cabin, is located in Osawatomie, Kansas.

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John Brown Tannery Site

John Brown Tannery Site is a historic archaeological site located at Richmond Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

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John Brown's Body

"John Brown's Body" (originally known as "John Brown's Song") is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown.

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John Brown's Body (poem)

John Brown's Body (1928) is an epic American poem written by Stephen Vincent Benét.

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John Brown's Fort

John Brown's Fort was originally constructed in 1848 for use as a guard and fire engine house by the federal Harpers Ferry Armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, then a part of Virginia.

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (also known as John Brown's raid or The raid on Harper's Ferry) was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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John C. Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier.

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John C. Tidball

John Caldwell Tidball (January 25, 1825 – May 15, 1906) was a career military officer, noted for his service in the horse artillery in the cavalry in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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John Chilembwe

Reverend John Chilembwe (1871 – February 3, 1915) was a Baptist pastor and educator, who trained as a minister in the United States, returning to Nyasaland in 1901.

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John Chilembwe's motivation

The ideas, people and events that constituted John Chilembwe's motivation and influenced him to undertake an uprising in 1915 were considered by the Commission of Inquiry shortly after the rising was defeated and have exercised historians of Malawi for the last 60 years.

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John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor.

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John E.P. Daingerfield

John E.P. Daingerfield served as a clerk at the Harpers Ferry Armory in 1859 during John Brown’s raid.

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John Henry Kagi

John Henry Kagey, also spelled John Henrie Kagi (March 15, 1835 – October 17, 1859), was an American attorney, abolitionist and second in command to John Brown in Brown's failed raid on Harper's Ferry.

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John Hunt Painter

John Hunt Painter (September 3, 1819 - April 9, 1891) was a Quaker farmer living near Springdale, Iowa, who sent the firearms to abolitionist John Brown that were used during Brown's historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

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John McCausland

John McCausland, Jr. (September 13, 1836 – January 22, 1927) was a brigadier general in the Confederate army, famous for the ransom of Hagerstown, Maryland, and the razing of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War.

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John Michael Cummings

John Michael Cummings (born 1963 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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John Murray Forbes

John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 – October 12, 1898) was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist.

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John P. Coburn

John P. Coburn (1811–1873) was an African-American abolitionist and civil rights activist from Boston.

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John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch

John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch (31 October 1824 – 13 September 1892) was a successful businessman, soldier and local politician.

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John Quincy Marr

John Quincy Marr (May 27, 1825 – June 1, 1861) was a Virginia militia company captain and the first Confederate soldier killed by a Union soldier in combat during the American Civil War.

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John Ritchie (abolitionist)

John Ritchie (July 17, 1817 – August 31, 1887) was an American abolitionist in Kansas who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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John Ritchie (Maryland)

John Ritchie (August 12, 1831 – October 27, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.

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John S. Leary

John S. Leary (August 17, 1845 – December 9, 1904) was a lawyer and politician in Fayetteville and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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John Sherman

John Sherman (May 10, 1823October 22, 1900) was a politician from the U.S. state of Ohio during the American Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.

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John Street House

The John Street House is a historic home that was part of the Underground Railroad.

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John Thomas Lewis Preston

John Thomas Lewis Preston (April 25, 1811 – July 15, 1890) was an American educator and military officer from Virginia.

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John Todd (abolitionist)

John Todd (November 10, 1818 – January 31, 1894) was a U.S. Congregationalist minister, co-founder of Tabor College in Tabor, Iowa, a leading abolitionist and a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad.

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John W. Garrett

John Work Garrett (July 31, 1820 – September 26, 1884), was an American banker, philanthropist, and president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. & O.). In 1855, he was named to the board of the B. & O., and in 1858, became its president, a position he held until the year he died.

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John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II (September 28, 1821 – August 14, 1874) was a Presbyterian minister and a prominent African-American officeholder during Reconstruction.

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Jordan House (West Des Moines, Iowa)

The Jordan House is an historic building located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

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Joseph Déjacque

Joseph Déjacque (December 27, 1821, Paris – 1864, Paris) was a French early anarcho-communist poet and writer.

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Joseph George Rosengarten

Joseph George Rosengarten (July 14, 1835 - January 14, 1921) was a Philadelphia lawyer, historian, and Civil War veteran.

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Joseph Winters

Joseph Richard "Nigerian" Winters (August 29, 1816 – November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878 received U.S. Patent number 203,517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder.

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Josiah Bushnell Grinnell

Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (December 22, 1821 – March 31, 1891) was a U.S. Congressman from Iowa's 4th congressional district, an ordained Congregational minister, founder of Grinnell, Iowa and benefactor of Grinnell College.

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Julia Archibald Holmes

Julia Annie Archibald Holmes (February 15, 1838 – January 19, 1887) was a Canadian-American suffragist, abolitionist, mountaineer and journalist.

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Julius Hobson

Julius Wilson Hobson (May 29, 1922 – March 23, 1977) was an activist and politician who served on the Council of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Board of Education.

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Just Above My Head

Just Above My Head is James Baldwin's sixth novel, first published in 1979.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kansas (Kansas album)

Kansas is the eponymous debut studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released in 1974 by Kirshner in the United States and Epic Records in other countries.

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Kansas forts and posts

Kansas has always been home to many forts and military posts.

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Kansas Museum of History

The Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, Kansas, USA, is the state history museum.

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Kansas State Capitol

The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Kansas–Nebraska Act

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce.

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Katherine Mayo

Katherine Mayo (January 27, 1867 – October 9, 1940) was an American researcher and historian.

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Kennedy Farm

The Kennedy Farm is a National Historic Landmark property on Chestnut Grove Road in rural southern Washington County, Maryland.

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Kent Industrial District

The Kent Industrial District is a historic district in Kent, Ohio, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Kent, Ohio

Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County.

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Kirke Mechem

Kirke Mechem (born August 16, 1925) is an American composer.

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Lafayette M. Hershaw

Lafayette M. Hershaw (May 10, 1863 - September 2, 1945) was a journalist, lawyer, and a clerk and law examiner for the General Land Office of the United States Department of the Interior.

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Lake Placid, New York

Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States.

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Lane, Kansas

Lane is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States.

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Last surviving United States war veterans

This is an incomplete list of the last surviving veterans of American wars.

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Lawrence Berry Washington

Lawrence Berry Washington (November 26, 1811 – September 21, 1856) was an American lawyer, military officer, author, Forty-niner, Border Ruffian, and a member of the Washington family.

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Lawrence massacre

The Lawrence massacre (also known as Quantrill's raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (186165) by the Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas.

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Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County and sixth largest city in Kansas.

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Le Mulâtre

"Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") is a short story by the American-born free person of color Victor Séjour.

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Lewis and Harriet Hayden House

Lewis and Harriet Hayden House was the home of African-American abolitionists who had escaped from slavery in Kentucky; it is located in Beacon Hill, Boston.

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Lewis Hayden

Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 – April 7, 1889) was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from slavery in Kentucky; they moved to Boston, where he became an abolitionist and lecturer, businessman, and politician.

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Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde (born 1945) is a scholar, essayist, translator, cultural critic and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property.

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Lewis Sheridan Leary

Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859), an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed.

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Lewis Washington

Lewis William Washington (November 30, 1812 - October 1, 1871) was a great-grandnephew of President George Washington, who is principally remembered as a hostage of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia and as a prosecution witness in the subsequent trial of Brown.

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892.

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List of abolitionists

This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists.

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List of African-American historic places

The following are a list of African-American historic places.

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List of alternate history fiction

This is a list of alternate history fiction, sorted by type.

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List of Americans of English descent

This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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List of battles fought in Kansas

This is an incomplete list of military and other armed confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kansas since European contact.

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List of biographical films

This is a list of biographical films.

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List of Confederate monuments and memorials

This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.

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List of European archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

This is a list of European archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.

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