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The Abolitionists
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William Lloyd Garrison

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html
http://www.biography.com/people/william-lloyd-garrison-9307251
Mini Bio Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOAGZqIKbQ
Video Intro #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GT2yNPJQ8​
Video Intro #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PbxSl-U89w
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Liberator-American-newspaper

Frederick Douglas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
​http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass
Mini-Bio Video#1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-4JBEIhXY
Mini-Bio Video#2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi4jIZg0cI
https://www.nps.gov/frdo/learn/historyculture/frederickdouglass.htm
Primary Source Documents: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/douglass/

Angelina Grimke
Video intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J364q_okClM
https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/angelina-grimke-weld/
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/essays/angelina-and-sarah-grimke-abolitionist-sisters
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/angelina-grimke.html
Speech to Pennsylavia hall: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2939t.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-beecher-stowe-9496479
http://www.history.com/topics/harriet-beecher-stowe
https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/
https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/
https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml
​Video Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFy4RjYGbQ

Henry Highland Garnet
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1537.html
http://www.biography.com/people/henry-highland-garnet-39704#synopsis
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2937.html
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/bios/henry-highland-garnet.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/social-reformers/henry-highland-garnet


Sojourner Truth
http://www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284  
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth
https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/sojourner-truth/
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/sojourner_truth.html
Bio video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-HfiryNoXY
“Ain’t I a Women?” Speech reading: http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
Kerry Washington Performing “Ain’t I a Women?” Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEAEoq59_4Q

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