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 * Abolition Placards**
 * __//**John C. Calhoun :**//__ He was a political leader from South Carolina. He was in favor of slavery and he feared that congress would make it illegal. He believed that states and not congress should be the ones to determine if slavery was allowed in particular states or not. He died in 1850.
 * //**__Frederick Douglass :__**// He was African American and he was an abolitionist who wanted to abolish slavery. He was enslaved in Maryland until he was 21. He escaped to Massachusetts after a failing attempt. He got away from the slave hunters he changed his name from Bailey to Douglass. He had great writing and literal skills that allowed him to help slaves.He publish an anti-slavery newspaper called the //North Star//.
 * __//**William Lloyd Garrison :**//__ He was one of the most famous abolitionists . He published the anti-slavery newspaper called //The Liberator//. He helped lead the movement to abolish slavery which was a success.Once he set fire to the constitution in public. He blamed everyone who tolerated slavery for its existence . Garrison was hated by the South and some people in the North thought he was too radical with his beliefs.
 * **//__The Grimke Sisters :__//** Sarah and Angelina Grimke were two sisters who were the ONLY Southern women to become abolitionist leaders. They wrote pamphlets in 1836 ; encouraging Southern women to stop slavery. The South Carolina officials burned the pamphlets and they threaten the sisters that if they ever returned they would be put in jail. They let free the slaves that their mother had given them both.
 * **//__Hinton Helper :__//** White Southerner from North Carolina. He opposed slavery.

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