1. Famous Abolitionists
Fighting to End Slavery

2. Harriet Tubman
● Conductor on the Underground Railroad
o Helped free more than 300 slaves
● Nickname: Moses

3. Sojourner Truth
● First African-American woman
to gain national recognition for
her anti-slavery speeches
● Counselor to Freedmen in
Washington, D.C.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe
● Wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
o Wrote book after visiting a plantation
o revealed the evils of slavery
o book was a bestseller

5. Fredrick Douglass
● Ex-slave
● Leading anti-slavery
spokesperson
● Wrote an autobiography
detailing his life as a
slave
● Published an antislavery
newspaper called The
North Star

6. John Brown
● More radical abolitionist
● Him and a group of followers
captured a federal arsenal in
Harper’s Ferry
o wanted to use weapons to help
him fight against slavery
● Was hanged for his actions

7. William Lloyd Garrison
● Editor of an abolitionist
newspaper called The Liberator
o Used it to communicate with
Congress that slavery was wrong
● 1841 he helped form the
National Anti-slavery Society
o Published books and papers about
slavery