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Manumission
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The act of freeing a slave, done at the will of the owner.
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Nat Turner
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An American slave who started the largest slave rebellion in the antebellum southern United States, in Southampton County, Virginia.
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passive resistance
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Resistance by nonviolent methods
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Frederick Douglass
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An American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer.
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Abolition
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Act of formally repealing an existing legal practice, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form.
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American Colonization Society
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An organization that helped in founding Liberia, a colony on the coast of West Africa.
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Underground Railroad
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An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
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Antebellum
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Commonly used, in lieu of "pre-Civil War," in reference to the period of increasing sectionalism that led up to the American Civil War.
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