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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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And your source for that is? Abolitionists were inherently secretive, due to the nature of their work freeing slaves. It's impossible to know their exact numbers, as no one would admit to it even after the war.
So any source you might find is just guessing as to their numbers.
You seem to be confusing the abolitionist movement, which involved public meetings and newspapers, with the "conductors" of the underground railroad, who were mostly free African-Americans who risked being enslaved by slave catchers (even if they had never been enslaved in their lives.)
They were the same people. And no, I meant the white abolitionists. They lived publicly in the North and South, but didn't reveal their identities.
https://www.historynet.com/how-many-abolitionists-were-there/
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