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The Revolutionaries Who Fought to End Slavery
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Black activists became allies of people like Frederick Douglass to fight for the end of the legal trade and institution of slavery in the United States. However, the invention of the cotton gin in the mid-1790s increased the economic value of slavery and prolonged the practice.

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