Franklin Pierce
To put it mildly, the 14th president of the United States was not well-liked. He was critical of Abraham Lincoln while Lincoln was in office because he thought the abolitionist movement was dangerous. And after Lincoln was killed, a mob reportedly had to be “persuaded” not to destroy his house. About 1855, when this picture was taken.
Franklin Pierce
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is another well-known figure from the abolitionist movement of the 1800s. She was born Araminta Ross in 1822. She is best remembered as a driving force behind the Underground Railroad, a system of underground tunnels and other means of escape used to get slaves to free areas of the United States and Canada. Photographed in Auburn, New York in 1868.
Harriet Tubman
