Abolitionist
By:Nathan W.
Willam Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was the publisher of an abolitionist newspaper Known as The Liberator.Garrison used the newspaper to tell everyone that slavery was wrong and should be abolished immediately.He and others formed the American Anti-slavery Society,which published books and papers advocating the emancipation of all slaves.
Sojourner
Sojourner Truth was the first African American women to gain recognition as an anti-slavery speaker.She was born in New York but was freed through gradual emancipation . She had a powerful speaking style and drew large audiences when she lectured about slavery and women's rights.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass taught himself to read and write while he was a slave.He escaped slavery and became an eloquent spokesmen for the abolitionist movement.
Harriet Tubman
She was an escape slave who became one of the most successful "conductors" of the Underground Railroad .The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad but a chain of homes where escaped slaves could ask for help,find shelter for the night or catch a ride to the next stop.Tubman was known as the "Moses" of her people because she led 300+ slave to freedom.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was the author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.Stowe's book became a best seller and revealed the cruelty of slavery to many Northerners.She wrote the book in response to the strong Fugitive Slave Act that was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850.
John Brown
He was an abolitionist who migrated to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act declared that the territory would decide by popularity sovereignty whether it would be slave or free.In Kansas,Brown and his sons participated in the violence that gave the territory the name"Bleeding Kansas"Johns raid was not successful. After that he was hung.