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n. United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895) n. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whet…
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- n. United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895) n. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)