the Abolitionist Leaders
By: Doryan Boone
Harriet Tubman
- She was an escaped slave.
- One of the most successful leaders of the railroad.
- She is known as a Moses of her people.
- She took at least 300 escaped slaves to the north where they were free.
Harriet Becher Stowe
- Author of uncle Tom's cabin
- Written as response to fugitive slave act.
- Disgraced with Lincoln postponing the freeing of slaves.
Sojourner Truth
- 1st a.a. woman to gain recognition of anti slavery speaker.
- born a slave in new york.
- powerful speaking style.
- Lincoln appointed her counselor to the freedmen in Washington during the civil war.
William Loyd Garrison
- Publisher of The Liberator.
- Used it to tell everyone about slavery and it's evil's.
- He and others formed the anti- slavery society
- Banned in the south.
Fredrick Douglass
- Taught himself how to read and write
- Escaped slavery and became spokesman
- publisher of the North Star
- fought for rights of women and African Americans.
John Brown
- migrated to Kansas.
- participated in violence.
- raid on arsenal at Harper's ferry in Virgina.
- captured.
- tried
- HANGED
- raised great fear in the south.