Abolitionist Generation

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The Abolitionist Generation was the generation of Americans who were born between approximately 1819 to 1842. These individuals would, in their early years, see railroad construction begin in earnest; and in their later lives, would campaign against slavery; and would fight the United States Civil War.

This is the generation that followed the Transcendentalist Generation, and included in literature, a new generation of writers and poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson that were inspired by the Transcendentalists of the previous generation (such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

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