Was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator".
What is William Lloyd Garrison.
100
The call to outlaw slavery.
What is abolition.
100
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
What is Frederick Douglass.
200
Urged African Americans to fight for freedom and equality. Also, believed in freedom by force.
What is David Walker.
200
Before the 'war' in the South.
What is antebellum.
200
"NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!”
What is William Lloyd Garrison.
300
After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, and wrote an autobiography describing his experiences as a slave.
What is Frederick Douglas.
300
The freeing of the slaves with no payment to slaveholders.
What is emancipation.
300
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
What is Abraham Lincoln.
400
President that immortalized himself in American history by the role that he played in abolishing the institution of slavery.
What is Abraham Lincoln.
400
Belief in human potential of individuals lead many transcendentalists to support abolition and other reform movements.
What is transcendentalism.
400
"If I remain in this bloody land, I will not live long… I cannot remain where I must hear slaves' chains continually and where I must encounter the insults of their hypocritical enslavers."
What is David Walker.
500
A radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system.
What is John Brown.
500
Life under slavery that included plantations, field work, and house workers.
What is rural slavery.
500
"Don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion."