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A few of the more prominent must serve as examples of what a complete listing and description would disclose. | disclose | {
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Several were born in the early decades and persisted throughout the century. | were born | {
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Several were born in the early decades and persisted throughout the century. | persisted | {
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Others were ephemeral. | were | {
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Some disappeared with the attainment of their purpose. | disappeared | {
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Still others sprang up late in the century to meet conditions which arose from fresh stages of the revolutionary age. | sprang up | {
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Still others sprang up late in the century to meet conditions which arose from fresh stages of the revolutionary age. | meet | {
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Still others sprang up late in the century to meet conditions which arose from fresh stages of the revolutionary age. | arose | {
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The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved. | end | {
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The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved. | began | {
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The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved. | mounted | {
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The movement to end Negro slavery began before 1815 and mounted after that year until, as a result of the Civil War, emancipation was achieved. | achieved | {
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Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly. | leading | {
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Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly. | declare | {
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Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly. | act | {
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For example, in 1693 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends declared that its members should emancipate their slaves and in 1776 it determined to exclude from membership all who did not comply. | declared | {
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For example, in 1693 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends declared that its members should emancipate their slaves and in 1776 it determined to exclude from membership all who did not comply. | emancipate | {
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For example, in 1693 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends declared that its members should emancipate their slaves and in 1776 it determined to exclude from membership all who did not comply. | exclude | {
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For example, in 1693 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends declared that its members should emancipate their slaves and in 1776 it determined to exclude from membership all who did not comply. | comply | {
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In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery. | took | {
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In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery. | asked | {
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In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery. | abolish | {
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As we have seen, Methodism early took a stand against slavery. | seen | {
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As we have seen, Methodism early took a stand against slavery. | took | {
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Beginning at least as far back as 1789 various Baptist bodies condemned slavery. | Beginning | {
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Beginning at least as far back as 1789 various Baptist bodies condemned slavery. | condemned | {
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After 1815 anti-slavery sentiment mounted, chiefly among Protestants and those of Protestant background of the older stock. | mounted | {
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The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves : | concerned | {
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The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves : | held | {
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they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves. | were | {
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they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves. | disappeared | {
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they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves. | was | {
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they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves. | were | {
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they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves. | own | {
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Benjamin Lundy ( 1789 - 1839 ), a Quaker, was a pioneer in preparing the way for anti-slavery societies. | was | {
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Benjamin Lundy ( 1789 - 1839 ), a Quaker, was a pioneer in preparing the way for anti-slavery societies. | preparing | {
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It was he who turned the attention of William Lloyd Garrison ( 1805 - 1879 ) to the subject. | was | {
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It was he who turned the attention of William Lloyd Garrison ( 1805 - 1879 ) to the subject. | turned | {
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Garrison, Massachusetts born of Nova Scotian parentage, was by temperament and conviction a reformer. | was | {
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Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes - among them women 's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians. | remembered | {
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Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes - among them women 's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians. | espoused | {
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Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 - 1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner... | attacked | {
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Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 - 1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner... | deemed | {
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Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 - 1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner... | compromising | {
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Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 - 1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner... | was | {
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Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 - 1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner... | denied | {
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A marked impulse came to the anti-slavery movement through the Finney revivals. | came | {
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Finney himself, while opposed to slavery, placed his chief emphasis on evangelism, but from his converts issued much of the leadership of the anti-slavery campaign. | opposed | {
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Finney himself, while opposed to slavery, placed his chief emphasis on evangelism, but from his converts issued much of the leadership of the anti-slavery campaign. | placed | {
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Finney himself, while opposed to slavery, placed his chief emphasis on evangelism, but from his converts issued much of the leadership of the anti-slavery campaign. | issued | {
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Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803 - 1895 ) was especially active. | was | {
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Weld was the son and grandson of New England Congregational ministers. | was | {
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As a youth he became one of Finney 's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men. | became | {
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A strong temperance advocate, through the influence of a favorite teacher, Charles Stewart, another Finney convert, he devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause. | devoted | {
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Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom 's Cabin. | contributed | {
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Wendell Phillips ( 1811 - 1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher. | converted | {
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Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian. | broke with | {
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Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian. | believed | {
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He was remembered chiefly for his fearless advocacy of abolition, but he also stood for equal rights for women, for opportunity for the freedmen, and for prohibition. | remembered | {
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The anti-slavery movement and other contemporary reforms and philanthropies were given leadership and financial undergirding by Arthur Tappan ( 1786 - 1865 ) and his younger brother, Lewis Tappan ( 1788 - 1873 ). | given | {
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Probably THE hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was sold to the public during the past week. | hit | {
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Probably THE hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was sold to the public during the past week. | was | {
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Probably THE hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was sold to the public during the past week. | sold | {
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For many reasons, the demand to buy shares in the Dallas-headquartered company was tremendous. | buy | {
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It was not a case of the investment bankers having to sell the stock ; it was more one of allotting a few shares to a number of customers and explaining to others why they had no more to sell. | was | {
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It was not a case of the investment bankers having to sell the stock ; it was more one of allotting a few shares to a number of customers and explaining to others why they had no more to sell. | explaining | {
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It was not a case of the investment bankers having to sell the stock ; it was more one of allotting a few shares to a number of customers and explaining to others why they had no more to sell. | had | {
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Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. | wanted | {
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Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. | put in | {
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Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. | buy | {
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Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. | found | {
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Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. | counted | {
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Investors who wanted 100 shares in many cases ended up with 25, and customers who had put in a bid to buy 400 shares found themselves with 100 and counted themselves lucky to get that many. | get | {
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In fact, very few customers, anywhere in the nation, were able to get more than 100 shares. | were | {
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In fact, very few customers, anywhere in the nation, were able to get more than 100 shares. | get | {
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Some Dallas investment firms got only 100 shares, for all of their customers. | got | {
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