Abolitionist Movement

Free African-American who was offered a job as a violinist but was instead robbed of his papers and sold into slavery for 12 years until he proved he was a free man

• Gabriel Prosser

• Frederick Douglass

• Solomon Northup

• William Howard Day

Born a slave, well educated, known for his skills as an orator, a leading abolitionist, a clergyman -- gave an impassioned speech in which he encouraged slaves to revolt against their masters.

• Henry Highland Garnet

• John Brown

• Wendell Phillips

• Gabriel Prosser

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, editor, orator, and teacher best known for his historic role in Harrisburg as the first school director of color in the United States.

• Frederick Douglass

• Henry Highland Garnet

• Wendell Phillips

• William Howard Day

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

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

Gifted poet, writer, and orator of the antislavery movement was called the "Bronze Muse." She devoted her life to the enslavement and oppression of Africans. Some of her works, especially her only novel, Lola Leroy, have been rediscovered.

• Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

• Mary Ann Shadd Cary

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sarah Parker Remond

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

(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

The movement concentrated on immediately ending slavery in the United States

• Abolitionist Movement

• Free-Soil Movement

• Anti-Temperance Movement

• Insurrection Movement