| Accomplishments | |
| women's rights supporter, educator, and newspaper journalist, human rights activist | |
| free-state leader, first governor of the state of Kansas | |
| Abolitionist, leader of Jayhawkers, led an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, VA | |
| military commander, leader of the Free State Party, took his Frontier Guard to Washington | |
| Spoke against slavery through writing, became the voice of Bleeding Kansas. | |
| author, Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life, was second to Uncle Tom’s Cabin in promoting antislavery sentiment | |
| Worked on the Underground Railroad, delegate to the constitutional conventions, fought for Civil Rights for blacks | |
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