Smith was an African American abolitionist leader who helped people escape slavery on the Underground Railroad.

Prominent abolitionist leader and orator Frederick Douglass called the assassination an "unspeakable calamity" for African Americans.

And Mr. Drayton cites William Lloyd Garrison, the 19th-century abolitionist leader.

Our reviewer called this "a detailed, finely written portrait" of the former slave and abolitionist leader.

Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist leader, continued to insist that Memorial Day should be about the battle between "slavery and freedom, barbarism and civilization."

Corydon, an early home of the state's abolitionist leaders, always had a number of free African-American citizens living in the vicinity of the school.

The Estes household was a gathering place for local and visiting abolitionist leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison.

The abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass occupies a prominent place in the exhibition.

He is credited with helping at least 600 slaves escape to freedom and worked closely with the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass, also an escaped slave.

One of his historical heroes, Robinson said, is Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist leader of the 19th century.