FAMOUS ABOLITIONISTS

ABOLITIONISTS

People who wanted to abolish slavery

(Abolish means to get rid of)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Former slave

Great speaker

Published newspaper called The North Star

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

Very outspoken

Great speaker

Published newspaper called “The Liberator,” with 30 years of anti-slavery information

HARRIET TUBMAN

HARRIET TUBMAN

Former slave

Led many slaves through the Underground Railroad

Called “Moses” by her people

SOJOURNER TRUTH

   

SOJOURNER TRUTH

Born a slave, Isabella Changed her name to

spread the “truth” about slavery

Famous speaker Spoke for abolishing

slavery and women’s rights

Famous speech was “Ain’t I a Woman?”

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Wrote a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Lincoln may have said to her, “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.”

Is “the pen mightier than the sword?”

                          

JOHN BROWN

JOHN BROWN

Led a raid on Harper’s Ferry to capture the federal weapons to give to slaves

Captured by federal soldiers, put on trial and hanged

              

CONCLUSION

Frederick Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Beecher Stowe

John Brown

WHAT DO WE CALL THEM?

FAMOUS

ABOLITIONISTS!!

Works Cited

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/douglasshttp://www.askforkids.comhttp://www.civilwarhome.com/biograph.htmhttp://womens history.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list.htmhttp://www.loc.gov/families/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28abolitionist%29