1. Charles Finney
His parents were farmers and he was the youngest of 15 children
He was 6’3” tall
He never attended college but apprenticed to become a lawyer

2. Dorothea Dix
She grew up in an alcoholic family and her father was abusive toward her
Her grandmother raised her and she started a school for the poor
She became a Sunday school teacher and started teaching in prisons

3. Horace Mann
Born into poverty and only went to school a few months a year
“Be ashamed to die before you have won some battle for humanity”
1st Secretary of the Board of Education in Massachusetts

4. Frederick Douglass
Was a slave who was taught to read and write by his master’s wife
Escaped to the north and joined the abolitionists
Abolitionists eventually “bought” his freedom from his former owner

5. William Lloyd Garrison
His unemployed father deserted the family when he was a child
He sold lemonade and candy to help support his family
Be began his career as an apprentice for a newspaper

6. Harriet Tubman
Beaten, whipped, and suffered a head injury when she was a slave
Escaped after praying that her master would change, then that he’d die (he did)
Tried to help her husband escape but he refused because he’d remarried

7. Angelina and Sarah Grimke
There father was a wealthy slave owner and judge in South Carolina
They saw slaves being mistreated and Angelina wanted to become a lawyer
They were disliked in the south because they spoke against slavery and for women’s rights
Moved north to Philadelphia and became Quakers

8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Her father was a lawyer and she realized that women had no legal rights
She married an abolitionist and they had their honeymoon at an anti-slavery convention in London
The women at the convention were forced to sit in a balcony behind a curtain (met Lucretia Mott)

9. Lucretia Mott
She was born and raised in a Quaker family, they thought she should be educated
She was educated at a Quaker boarding school at age 13
Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the anti-slavery convention in London

10. Elizabeth Blackwell
Her Quaker father felt his sons and daughters should be educated equally
She and her family were against slavery
She was accepted into medical school as a joke but graduated 1st in her class