Abolitionist
by Matthew May
William Llyod Garrison
- published the newspaper The Liberator
- formed the Anti- Slavery society
- his newspaper was banned in the house
- Northerners also opposed his views as harassed
Sojourner Truth
- First African American woman to gain recognition as Anti-Slavery speak
- she lectured about slavery and women's rights
- president Abraham Lincoln appointed her as a counselor after the civil war
- she was born in New York but was free during
Fredrick Douglass
- Taught himself how to read and write as a salve
- He escaped slavery and became a eloquent spokesman for the abolitionist movement
- wrote the newspaper The North Star
- encouraged president Lincoln to emancipate slavery
- after the war he continued to fight for the right's for African Americans
Harriet Tubman
- she led more than 300 slaves out the south
- Tubman is known as the Moses of her people
- the underground railroad went throughout the south and Canada
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- was the author of the of the book Uncle Toms cabin
- her book became one of the best selling about cruelty of slavery in the north
- Stowe often disagreed with Lincoln because he postpone of slavery
John brown
- was a abolitionist who migrated to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska act
- brown and his sons were called the bleeding Kansas because of there violence
- John brown led a raid on United States arsenal st Harper's Ferry in Virgina and was hanged