Local Abolitionists
National Abolitionists
The Law
Places
Events
100
He was the pastor of the Trinitarian Church.
Reverend Trask
100
His first anti-slavery speech was on Nantucker
Frederick Douglass
100
The Fugitive Slave Act refused this civil right to captured fugitives.
No jury trial
100
The Federal Armory that John Brown attacked was here.
Harpers Ferry
100
The Fugitive Slave Act banned the slave trade, but not.......
Slavery
200
He brought Shadrach Minkins to Samuel Crocker's house.
Benjamin Snow.
200
They would not eat sugar because slaves cut the cane.
The Grimke sisters
200
The fine for helping a fugitive
$1000
200
The free state where the Dred Scott Case was tried.
Missouri
200
In Boston, this fugitive was captured and 1,500 federal troops kept anti-slavery men from saving him.
Anthony Burns
300
She was a Leominster abolitionist who helped Shadrach Minkins get to Fitchburg.
Frances Drake
300
He wrote the newspaper "The Liberator" and was a friend of Benjamin Snow's.
William Lloyd Garrison
300
The President who signed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850
Millard Fillmore
300
Fifty Fitchburgers traveled here to help it become a free state.
Kansas
300
In 1844, this new abolitionist church was built.
The Trinitarian Church
400
Samuel Crocker and friends sent Shadrach Minkins to the next stop on the Underground Railroad in this town.
Ashburnham
400
He called slavery "a cancer" that should be cut out.
Lincoln
400
The destination country for most fugitive slaves after 1850.
Canada
400
The frozen lake that Shadrach Minkins crossed to get to Montreal
Lake Champlain
400
When the bell in the Trinitarian Church would first be rung in Fitchburg
When slaves were free
500
She wrote stories after the Civil War about the Underground Railroad in Fitchburg.
Martha Snow
500
He was a martyr for abolition.
John Brown
500
As part of the Fugitive Slave Act, this state entered the Union as a free state.
California
500
Both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass escaped from this state
Maryland
500
This newspaper editor was killed during Quantrill's Raid in Kansas.
Josiah Trask