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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Mary Ellen Pleasant</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/05/mary-ellen-pleasant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many differing accounts exist about Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904). As a child, she learned about business from working with Quakers in Nantucket. Moving to Boston, Pleasant met abolitionists and joined the anti-slavery cause. There she also married a man who may have aided runaway slaves. Pleasant moved to San Francisco, possibly to avoid prosecution for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Charles B. Ray</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/05/faith-freedom-daily-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 05:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles B. Ray, a conductor on the Underground Railroad and Congregational minister (Bethesda Congregational Church) in NY, was born on December 25, 1807 in Falmouth, MA. A member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Ray became well-known for his involvement in the anti-slavery cause. In 1855, he played an important role in the efforts to free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Reverend Samuel J. May</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/05/reverend-samuel-j-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unitarian Minister Helps Runaway Slaves Escape from Boston to Canada Reverend Samuel J. May was born in Boston, MA and educated at Harvard and Cambridge before being ordained a Unitarian minister in 1822. He worked passionately for a variety of humanitarian causes throughout the 19th century, including women’s rights, penal reform, Native American treatment and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Ralph Waldo Emerson</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/04/ralph-waldo-emerson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson was a stationmaster on the Underground Railroad in Concord, MA.  Emerson began his professional career as a Unitarian minister; however, he left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking.  Emerson became known as a pre-eminent American philosopher and a beloved nineteenth-century figure.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Elizabeth Buffum Chace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Buffum Chace was a Quaker stationmaster on the Underground Railroad in Fall River, Massachusetts Born in 1806; she grew up on her family&#8217;s farm in Smithfield, RI. From a young age Chace learned from her father, who abhorred slavery, the importance of standing up against slavery. In the late 1830s, Chace began to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Rev. Leonard Grimes</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/04/leonard-grimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1815-1873 Jail didn’t stop him This free black from Leesburg, VA operated a hackney (taxi) company that he used to move runaways towards freedom. In 1839 he was arrested with a woman named Patty and her six children on board. Grimes served two years in a Richmond prison – apparently saved from a tougher sentence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: John Greenleaf Whittier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1807-1892 Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves – in a land of light and law! Slaves – crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom&#8217;s war! “The Quaker Poet” As a young man, this Massachusetts-born poet attracted the attention of William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press in Newburyport, MA. Garrison asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith to Freedom Daily: Rev. Jehiel Beman &amp; Rev. Amos Beman</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/03/rev-jehiel-beman-amos-beman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father-son activists Jehiel&#8217;s father had escaped from slavery and took the name &#8220;Be Man&#8221; &#8211; Beman &#8211; to celebrate his freedom and humanity. Jehiel was born in Connecticut and went on to become a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church. He served churches in Boston, MA and Middletown, CT where he spoke out strongly [...]]]></description>
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