"The belief has been constantly expressed in England that in the United States, which has produced William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, James Russell Lowell, John G. Whittier and Abraham Lincoln there must be those of their descendants who would take hold of the work of inaugurating an era of law and order. The colored people of this country who have been loyal to the flag believe the same, and strong in that belief have begun this crusade."
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Abolitionists19th-century poets from the United StatesQuakersPoets from MassachusettsMassachusetts Libertyites
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Ida B. Wells, The Red Record (1895)
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John Greenleaf Whittier
1807 – 1892
US-amerikanischer Dichter
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