Abolition, Abolitionists and Underground Railroad

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What did abolitionists believe?

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Slavery was wrong and should be abolished.

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This former slave was sold for $20 and then given her freedom after her previous owner didn’t keep his promise to set her free. She was an abolitionist and a suffragist. She believed in rights for all people and gave speeches and did work to help both causes. Who was she?

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Sojourner Truth

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This former slave taught himself to read and write. He helped the abolitionists as well as the suffragists. He even wrote his own autobiography!

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Frederick Douglass

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By 1807 all states North of where had outlawed slavery?

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Pennsylvania

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Who published the anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Who published an autobiography about his life as a slave?

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Frederick Douglass

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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What secret system was used to help people to escape from slavery?

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Underground Railroad

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Who ran away from slavery but returned to the South many times to help others escape slavery?

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Harriet Tubman

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What was the movement to end slavery called?

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Abolition