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Harriet Bell Hayden
African-American antislavery activist (1816–1893) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harriet Bell Hayden (c. 1816-1893) was an African-American antislavery activist in Boston, Massachusetts. She and her husband, Lewis Hayden, escaped slavery in Kentucky and became the primary operators of the Underground Railroad in Boston. They aided the John Brown slave revolt conspiracy, and she played a leadership role in Boston's Black community in the decades following the U.S. Civil War.
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