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Abraham Lincoln

American statesman and lawyer
16th President of the United States
(1809-1865)

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America from 1861-1865
(1808-1865)

Frederick Douglass

Civil Rights Activist, Government Official
(1818–1895)

John Brown

Civil Rights Activist
Known for his raid on Harper's Ferry
(1800–1859)

Harriet Tubman

Civil Rights Activist, Conductor of the Underground Railroad
(1820–1913)

Nat Turner

Leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831
(1800–1831)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Activist, Author, Activist, Philanthropist
(1811–1896)

 

Sojourner Truth

Activist, Women's Rights Activist,
Civil Rights Activist
(1797–1883)