Abolitionist leaders like William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Sojourner Truth worked to end slavery and contributed to rising tensions between the North and South. Fredrick Douglass escaped slavery and became a writer and editor of an anti-slavery newspaper. Harriet Tubman helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad. John Brown believed in using force against slavery and was hanged for raiding a federal arsenal. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin increased opposition to slavery across the North.

1. Abolitionists
Standard 4-6.2 Explain the contributions of
abolitionists to the mounting tensions between the
North and South over slavery, including William Lloyd
Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglas, Harriet
Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown
Learning Objective: SWBAT explain the impact of
abolitionists on the tensions between the north and
south.
Essential Question: What impact did abolitionist have
on the mounting tensions between the North and
South over slavery?

2. What does it mean to be an
Abolitionist?

3. Abolitionist- Person who wants to
abolish, or end, slavery.

4. Major Abolitionists of the Civil War Era
Fredrick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Sojourner Truth

5. Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick Douglass was a former slave who
escaped to freedom disguising himself as a
sailor.

6. Douglass was a writer,
editor, and leading
abolitionist. He edited
The North Star
newspaper, which was
an anti-slavery
newspaper.

7. William Lloyd Garrison
Journalist, reformer, and founder of
the antislavery newspaper The
Liberator

8. Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist who escaped
from slavery in 1849

9. Tubman became a conductor
on the Underground Railroad,
she led more than 300 slaves
to freedom. Hiding
Spaces

10. John Brown
Abolitionist who believed
in the use of force to
oppose slavery.
He was hanged for
leading a raid on
Harpers Ferry,
Virginia.

11. Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women’s rights leader who
escaped from slavery in 1827.
She became a preacher and preached about the
evils of slavery.

12. Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Author of Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, which
exposed the
cruelties of slavery
to a wide audience
before the Civil War.