1. Chapter 12 The Road to the Civil War Section 12-1: Abolitionists Pages 528-534

2. Vocabulary Abolitionist: reformers who worked to end slavery The Fugitive Slave Act –1850: required all citizens to capture runaways William Lloyd Garrison: –founded “The Liberator” –Abolitionist from Mass. –Called for the immediate end of slavery

3. Abolitionists The Grimke Sisters –From SC, moved to PA –Freed their slaves –Wrote firsthand accounts of slavery

4. African-American Abolitionists David Walker –Free man, wanted slaves to rebel Frederick Douglass –Born a slave in Md., escaped in 1838 –Mass. Anti-slavery society –Powerful and influential speaker and writer Sojourner Truth –Born a slave named Isabella Baumfree –Dedicated life to abolition/women’s rights Harriet Tubman –Most successful conductor of “The Underground Railroad”