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- 201: Helen Keller
- ... neutrality in World War I (Notable 391). She was against war and supported the Industrial Workers of the World once again. Helen also began to support many other movements during this time such as the abolition of capital punishment and child labor, the birth control movement, and also the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her involvement with this particular group seemed to be the most controversial and it ...
- 202: Harriet Stowe
- ... avocation. She eventually bore six children, with whom her writing competed. Stowe chose to write Uncle Tom's Cabin because her sister-in-law urged her to use her skills to aid the cause of abolition. The novel was incredibly popular and sold more copies than any book before it, with the exception only of the Christian Bible. "Today, Uncle Tom's Cabin raises many questions. It requires readers to confront ...
- 203: Fredrick Douglass 5
- ... apologetic about their slave past. (Herschler 105) Frederick also had another abolitionist publication, North Star. Rather than a book, North Star was an abolitionist newspaper. He edited the antislavery newspaper for sixteen years. After the abolition of slavery, the paper became less important and eventually stopped being published. Frederick Douglass played a major role in the redefinition of American literature in the Civil War time period. Abolitionism was a very important ...
- 204: Fredrick Douglass 3
- ... found out what it meant.If a slave succeeded in escaping from his Master or performing a radical action such asburning a barn or killing his Master, it was considered to be a form of abolition. One daywhile running an errand, Frederick ran into two Irishmen hard at work. Frederick assistedthe Irishmen and soon after they asked if he was a slave. The men then advisedFrederickto run away to the north ...
- 205: Emerson And Thoreau
- ... would simply write an essay on something that he felt strongly about, Thoreau would take it to the next level and participate. For example, in the anti-slavery movement. Emerson never took a stand on abolition; he never stated if he was for or against it. This angered Thoreau. Not only did Thoreau write several essay s on the subject, attacking it in the essay "Slavery in Massachusetts", and defending the ...
- 206: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church. In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to a coastal town ...
- 207: Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- ... and made a name for himself as an abolitionist. The themes that Douglass discusses throughout the narrative about the cruelty to the slaves and the blatant injustice of slavery altogether give reason enough for the abolition of slavery. The very fact that Douglass wrote this book is a feat among others since he learned to read and write by sacrificing his meals for knowledge. He should definitely be admired for that ...
- 208: Don Pepe Figueres
- ... most of the calderonistas were exiled to Mexico, many had their property seized, were thrown in prison, or in the most extreme cases murdered. Thus, Figueres underlying government concentrated on a state-controlled economy, the abolition of labor unions and free press, and repression of opposition parties to the extreme of murder. The two sides of Figueres are easily discernible, but the reason for his duality and the subsequent continued cooperation ...
- 209: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... He soon would become the sole minister plenipotentiary at the French court. He then wrote the second part of his autobiography and by 1787 he had been elected President of Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Later on that year he was a delegate at the Constitutional Convention and made the closing speech. In 1788, he made his last will and testament and began the third part of his ...
- 210: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... 1783. He returned home to Philadelphia in 1785 at the age of 79. The next year he became President of Pennsylvania for three years. He also became active in the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1787 at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin, age 81, was too weak to stand, but he used his life's knowledge ...
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