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			1773 Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom

1776 Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans

			1806 Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston

1813 William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward

			1829 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.

			1832 Garrison begins "The Liberator"

1833 John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.
			1833 Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"

1834 Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"

			1837 Vermont abolitionists begin sheltering escaped slaves
1837 Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"
			1837 Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England

1839 Amistad trial in New Haven

			1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery

1845 Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.

			1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

1857 Dred Scott Decision

			1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing

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