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Charles Finney preaches in the Second Great Awakening
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William Loyd Garrison starts the anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator
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Oberlin College becomes the first college to admit women along with men
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Lecretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attend the world anti-slavery convention in London
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Dorothea Dix discovers horrors in jails and prison
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Horace Mann acheives some success in public education