Abolitionists WHO?
Abolitionists WHAT?
Abolitionists WHEN?
Abolitionists WHERE?
Abolitionists WHY?
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Sojourner Truth
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Uncle Tom's Cabin author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
100
In 1838 this abolitionist escaped slavery when he dressed up like a sailor and hopped on a train that went from Maryland to New York City. There he married the woman who helped him escaped and changed his name.
Frederick Douglass
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As an author in Maine, she published a book that showed readers what life was truly like for a slave in America.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Because as a slave herself she suffered cruel beatings by her masters.
Sojourner Truth
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John Brown
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Led the Raid on Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
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Not long before slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, she ran away from her slave master.
Sojourner Truth
200
This white man's abolitionist newspaper was so popular that even people in England and Scotland read it.
William Lloyd Garrison
200
Because he was passionate about ending slavery, and he believed violence was the answer.
John Brown
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Frederick Douglass
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Started a newspaper called the North Star.
Frederick Douglass
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He travelled to Kansas in 1855 after the Kansas Nebraska Act was established to battle against pro-slavery groups trying to take over the territory.
John Brown
300
She changed her first name to mean "a person who stays in different places for short times, like a traveller or a guest."
Sojourner Truth
300
Because he believed in using moral persuasion (not violence) to convince people that slavery was wrong and should be ended
William Lloyd Garrison
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Started a newspaper called The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
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In 1863 this abolitionist met Abraham Lincoln. The story goes that he greeted her by saying, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
He had to move to Europe for a while to escape slave catchers. Eventually a group of fellow abolitionists officially bought his freedom so that he could return to America as a free man.
Frederick Douglass
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Because as a child she watched black families be separated and slaves abused on plantations. Because she believed that people needed to know the truth about what life was like as a slave.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Gave the speech "Ain't I a Woman?" on racial and gender equality
Sojourner Truth
500
"I will be heard," are words from his newspaper that began publication in 1831.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Whether in Kansas or Virginia, violence against the institution of slavery was his answer.
John Brown
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Because, "The pen is mightier than the sword."
William Lloyd Garrison