John Woolman

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What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

Frederick Douglass, between 1880 and 1890; photo by George Kendall Warren.

8 Influential Abolitionist Texts

African American man praying in church with stained glass in background

Why Do People Say “Amen” at the End of a Prayer?

Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation, 1858. Illustration published in Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. African Americans; Black Americans; cotton pickers; slavery; slaves; enslavement; Georgia

Pro and Con: Reparations for Slavery

Painting titled: "Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention" oil on canvas by Junius Brutus Stearns, 1856; in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. (Note from museum) The painting represents George Washington's role as president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The normally reserved Washington urges passage of a new federal constitution, a draft of which he holds in his hands.

How Many of the Signers of the U.S. Constitution Were Enslavers?

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Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Born	October 19, 1720 • New Jersey
Died	October 7, 1772 (aged 51) • York • England

Elias Hicks

American minister

George Fox

English religious leader

Elizabeth Leslie Rous Comstock

Anglo-American minister and social reformer

Martin Luther

German religious leader

John Bunyan

English author

John Newton

English clergyman and writer

St. John of Damascus

Christian saint

St. John of Ávila

Spanish religious reformer

John Caird

British theologian

Caesarius Of Heisterbach

German religious author

Thomas Emlyn

English clergyman and writer

Angelina Grimké

American abolitionist

Sarah Grimké

American abolitionist

Frederick Douglass

United States official and diplomat

Anna Murray Douglass

American abolitionist

Billy Graham

American evangelist

William Lloyd Garrison

American editor, writer, and abolitionist

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

John Brown

American abolitionist

Horace Greeley

American journalist

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