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Date c. 1861 - c. 1877
Areas Of Involvement African Americans • civil rights • reform • emancipation • suffrage
Related People James A. Garfield • Benjamin F. Butler • Thaddeus Stevens • Charles Sumner • Benjamin F. Wade • George W. Julian • Lyman Trumbull • Roscoe Conkling • Hannibal Hamlin • Zachariah Chandler • George Sewall Boutwell • Schuyler Colfax • Oliver H. P. T. Morton

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