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Simon Bolivar
Venezuelan military leader that liberated parts of south america. Also the Former president of Grande Columbia, Peru and Bolivia(which was in fact named after him. -
Edict of Emancipation
The mechanism by which Czar Alexander II freed all Russian serfs (one third of the total population). All personal serfdom was abolished, and the peasants were to receive land from the landlords and pay them for it.