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William Lloyd Garrison's "Liberator"- beginning of radical abolitonism
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Reverend William Ellery Channing's "Slavery"
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Emerson's "Silent Years"
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Amos Bronson Alcott admitted black child into Temple School
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Fuller refuses to publish antislavery material in the dial
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"Man, the Reformer"- Emerson
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Emerson gives abolitionist address at an antislavery rally organized by Concord Female Society
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"New England Reformers"- Emerson
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Emerson's political writings divided
"Emerson's political writings are so internally divided between transcendentalist values and practical politics as to be practically useless." -
Thoreau Jailed for not paying taxes
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US War with Mexico
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Resistance to Civil Government
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Fugitive Slave Law
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1850s- Emerson became a fervent abolitionist
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Republican Party Formed
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Anthony Burn's Trial
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Slavery in Massachusetts- Thoreau
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late 1850's most transcendentalists are abollitionists
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A Plea for Cap'n John Brown
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
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Last Days of John Brown- Thoreau
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Abraham Licoln Elected
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"Boston Hymn" -Emerson
Celebration of the Emancipation Proclomation -
Emancipation Proclamation