
Part One: Helen Keller Was a Socialist But Also Complicated
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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The Fugitive Slave Act and Anthony Burns
He funded John Brown. His house was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He brought back Greek refugee children to personally teach in America. Then he went to France and fought in the 1832nd French Revolution. Back in the US, he started an abolitionist newspaper. After the Civil War, he worked with the Freedmen's Bureau after the war. And if you read the Wikipedia level of him or whatever, he did all this amazing shit but then he goes on to like found the school for the blind and dedicated his life to teaching people how to read.
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