- Blake, William
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English poet, painter, and printmaker. Considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. (1757-1827).
- Bolívar, Simón
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South American political leader who played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. (1783-1830).
- Cabet, Étienne
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French philosopher and utopian socialist. He was the founder of the Icarian movement and led a group of emigrants to found a new society in the United States. (1788-1856).
- Condorcet, Marquis de
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(1743-1794).French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist.
- Equiano, Olaudah
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African former slave involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. (1745-1797).
- Godwin, William
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English journalist, political philosopher and novelist, considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. (1756-1836).
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. (1770-1831).
- Holbach, Baron d'
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French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. (1723-1789).
- Humboldt, Alexander von
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Naturalist. (1769-1859).
- Lount, Samuel
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Blacksmith, politician, rebel. (1791-1838).
- L'ouverture, Toussaint
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Leader of the Haitian Revolution. (1743-1803).
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Haïtian Maroon resistance leader. (died 1758).
- Mackenzie
A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
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History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
- Mackenzie, William Lyon
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Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
- Mackenzie, William Lyon
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Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
- Marat, Jean-Paul
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Radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. (1743-1793).
- Matthews, Peter
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Farmer who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. (1789? - 1838).
- Owen, Robert
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English social reformer. (1771-1858).
- Paine, Thomas
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Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
- Papineau, Louis-Joseph
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Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
- Saint-Simon, Henri de
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French utopian socialist thinker. (1760-1825).
- Tecumseh
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Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
- Tecumseh
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Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
- Thompson, William
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Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements. (1775-1833).
- Truth, Sojourner
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African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
- Wilberforce, William
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British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
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British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
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