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en-wikipedia-org-6729		Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	20417	2192	67	Douglass became legally free during a two-year stay in England, as British supporters raised funds to purchase his freedom from his American owner Thomas Auld, and also helped fund his abolitionist newspapers in the United States.[38] Abolitionism had a strong religious base including Quakers, and people converted by the revivalist fervor of the Second Great Awakening, led by Charles Finney in the North, in the 1830s. Historian Frederick Blue called John Brown "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans".[55][full citation needed] When Brown was hanged after his attempt to start a slave rebellion in 1859, church bells rang across the North, there was a 100-gun salute in Albany, New York, large memorial meetings took place throughout the North, and famous writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau joined other Northerners in praising Brown.[56] Whereas Garrison was a pacifist, Brown believed violence was unfortunately necessary to end slavery.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6729.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6729.txt