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Birth of Harriet Ann Jacobs
Edenton, NC -
Foundation of the American Colonization Society
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Constitution of the Raleigh Female Benevolent Society
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Rise of the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
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New York State Abolishes Slavery
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Sojourner Truth Sets Precedent By Winning the Freedom of her Son in Court Against a White Man
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David Walker's Appeal
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The Liberator: "To the Public"
Written by William Lloyd Garrison, white abolitionist New Englander. This is the first issue of the publication -
Garrison Recruits Maria W. Stewart to Write for "The Liberator"
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Confessions of Nat Turner
Published by Thomas Ruffin Gray -
Angelina Grimke - Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
Published in The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 1836 -
The Publication of Emerson's Essay "Nature"
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Charles Finney's Sermon "Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Heart"
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Formation of the Liberty Party
Ran presidential candidates in 1840 and 1844 -
Dorothea Dix starts a Sunday school class at the East Cambridge House of Correction in Massachusetts
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Mary Paul Writes a Letter to Her Father While Working at Lowell Mills
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Wilmot Proviso is (almost) Passed
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The Creation of the Independent Nation of Liberia
The society was established in 1822 by the ACS. -
Frederick Douglass begins publication of the North Star
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The Declaration of Sentiments, drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
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The Publication of Thoreau's Essay "Resistance to Civil Government"
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The Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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Sojourner Truth is Published in "The Anti Slavery Bugle"
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The Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
Speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass at Rochester's Corinthian Hall -
The Publication of Thoreau's "Walden"
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Charlotte Forten Documents An Antislavery Meeting
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Nelly's Noble Resistance by Frederick Douglass
From My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855 -
Charlotte Forten Journals Mistreatment at the Hands of White Students
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Margaret Garner's Escape
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Helen Mar Whitney's Defense of "Plural Marriage"