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lack abolitionist played a leading role in the
struggle against slavery and discrimination. They initiated opposition to
colonization. They staged protests against segregated seating in churches and
on public transportation. They circulated petitions, organized boycotts, and
brought court suits in an effort to make segregated schools illegal. They
provided the core subscribers for antislavery periodicals like The Liberator.
Fugitive slaves helped arouse Northern sympathy
for the slaves' plight. Their first-hand tales of whippings and separations
from spouses and children erased the notion that slaves were content under
slavery.