Abolitionist Movement

The movement concentrated on immediately ending slavery in the United States

• Abolitionist Movement

• Free-Soil Movement

• Anti-Temperance Movement

• Insurrection Movement

American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.

• Carter G Woodson

• Gabriel Prosser

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

• Gabriel Prosser

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Wendell Phillips

• Henry Highland Garnet

An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Federal Armories where weapons were stored, and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory.

• William Howard Day

• Elijah Lovejoy

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, she escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Mary Ann Shadd Cary

• Sarah Parker Remond

(1811-1896) American author, abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• Harriett Tubman

• Sarah Parker Remond

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

A former cold mine worker born to former slaves got a degree from Harvard and started "Black History Month"

• Carter G. Woodson

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• WIlliam Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist and feminist who spoke against slavery and for the rights of women. She wrote the famous poem, "Ain't I a Woman"

• Mary Ann Shadd Cary

• Sarah Parker Remond

• Sojourner Truth

• Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

In 1800, he gathered 1000 rebellious slaves outside of Richmond; but 2 Africans gave the plot away, and the Virginia militia stop the uprising before it could begin, along with 35 others he was executed.

• Wendell Phillips

• Gabriel Prosser

• Solomon Northup

• Henry Highland Garnet

An abolitionist who was the first black woman publisher in North America as well as first woman publisher in Canada. She edited The Provincial Freeman and was the first female African American Editor of any newspaper in North America.

• Harriett Tubman

• Mary Ann Shadd Cary

• Sarah Parker Remond

• Harriet Beecher Stowe