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| invented the cotton gin in 1793, keeping slavery alive in the South |
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| favorite author among the Southern aristocrats who helped them idealize a feudal society with them as the kings and queens and the slaves as their subjects |
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| name for crop whose dominance led to a one-crop economy whose price level was at the mercy of world conditions |
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| wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin illustrating hardships of slavery |
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| slave who led 1800 rebellion in Richmond, Virginia |
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| led 1822 Charleston rebellion |
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| semiliterate preacher who led 1831 revolt |
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| American Colonization Society |
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| founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting blacks back to Africa |
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| republic founded in 1822 as a place for blacks to live |
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| provided support for abolitionism in the 1830s |
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| inspired by Charles Grandison Finney; preached against slavery and wrote pamphlet, American Slavery As It Is |
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| January 1, 1831: published first edition of The Liberator |
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| triggered a 30-year war of words and in a sense fired one of the first shots of the Civil War |
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| Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet" who refused to eat cane sugar or wear cotton cloth, since both were made by slaves |
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| black abolitionist who wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy |
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| freed Black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights |
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| oen of the few people who reconsidered black relocation to Africa |
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| the greatest black abolitionist; an escaped black who was a great speaker and fought for the black cause despite being beaten and harassed |
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| passed by Southern House members in 1836 requiring all antislavery repeals to be tabled without debate, arousing the fire of northerners like John Quincy Adams |
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| Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy |
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| Alton, Illinois; impugned chastity of Catholic women, had his printing press destroyed four times and was killed by a mob in 1837; became an abolitionist martyr |
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