Forten, Robert

American abolitionist

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    In United States: Abolitionism of the United States

    …such as David Walker and Robert Forten and formerly enslaved persons such as Frederick Douglass, who had the clearest of all reasons to work for the cause but who shared some broader humanitarian motives with their white coworkers.

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