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Abolitionist Leaders

By:Kyla O`Keefe

AbolitionistLeadersBy:Kyla O`Keefe
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Harriet Tubman

  • One of the most successful conductors of the Under Ground railroad.
  • Escaped slave
  • They ran all the way from the South to Canada.

John Brown

  • Abolitionist migrated to Kansas
  • Brown and his sons participated in the violence that gave its name "Bleeding Kansas"
  • Further divided North and South
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Sojourner Truth

  • Born a slave in New York.
  • Was freed through gradual Emacipation
  • She spoke up about slavery and women's rights.
  • Lincoln appointed her to a counselor in Washington while the Civil war was lasting
  • Anti-slavery speaker
  • Powerful speaking style

Fredreick Douglass

  • Taught himself to read and write
  • Published news paper named The North Star

Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Author of Uncle Toms Cabin
  • Not a slave
  • Stowe often did not agree with Lincoln.

William Lloyd Garrison

  • Publisher of The Liberator
  • Garrisons News paper was banned in the South