ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
An ex-slave and skilled public speaker, he founded an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star. Frederick Douglass
She ran the underground railroad, helping to free 300 slaves. Harriet Tubman
He led a failed slave revolt in 1831. Nat Turner
She wrote Uncle Toms Cabin which encouraged Northerners to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act. Harriet Beecher Stowe
He led abolitionists in the Pottawatomie Massacre. John Brown
White abolitionist who started a newspaper, The Liberator, in Massachusetts, that called for immediate emancipation. William Lloyd Garrison
An ex-slave, she fought for women’s rights and abolition. Sojourner Truth
He led a failed slave revolt in Harpers Ferry Virginia in 1859 John Brown
He once ate 27 doughnuts in one sitting. Homer J. Simpson