Abolitionist
By Avery ONeal
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was the first African American women to gain recognition as anti-slavery speaker.She was born a New York slave but was freed. President Lincoln appointed her as a couselor to freedom in Washington during the civil war.
This picture show how Abraham Lincoln had Sojourner as a counselor.
Harriet Tubman
She was a escaped slave that also helped with the underground railroad. there was more than 300 slave that made it to freedom because of the underground railroad and Harriet.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the the book became the best seller.The slave act was passed through the Compromise of 1850.Stowe disagreed with President Lincoln to postpone the freeing of the slaves.
Frederick Douglass
He tote his self to read and write.He escaped slavery and became a eloquent spokeman. Douglass published an antislavery newspaper called The North Star and wrote conditions on slavery.
William Llyod Garrison
He is the publisher of the Liberator. The newspaper was about how slavery was wrong . His newspaper was banned in the south because the south still wanted slaves.
John Brown
He migrated to Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska act.Him and his sons participated in violence that gave the Territory the name Bleeding Kansas.