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Also Known As Maria Weston
Born July 25, 1806 • Weymouth • Massachusetts
Died July 12, 1885 (aged 78) • Weymouth • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Right and Wrong in Massachusetts”
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
United States official and diplomat
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley
American journalist
Gamaliel Bailey
American journalist
Robert Dale Owen
American politician and social reformer
Hobby, Oveta Culp
Oveta Culp Hobby
United States government official
Schurz
Carl Schurz
German-American politician
Brownlow, William G.
William G. Brownlow
American journalist and politician
Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Bloomer
American social reformer
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child
American author
Colfax, Schuyler
Schuyler Colfax
vice president of United States
George Creel.
George Creel
American journalist
George Henry Evans
American social reformer and editor
Duff Green
Duff Green
American political journalist
Elijah P. Lovejoy monument
Elijah P. Lovejoy
American abolitionist
Lundy, detail of a lithograph after a painting
Benjamin Lundy
American abolitionist
Joseph Medill McCormick
United States senator
Adams, Henry
Henry Adams
American historian
John Brown
John Brown
American abolitionist
Wright, Frances
Frances Wright
American social reformer