The AbolitionistsJake Miller

Cumberland Valley School District

Grimke Sisters

Angelina Grimke Weld

• Wrote a letter to Garrison’s Liberator in 1835, which he published without her consent

• Written off by the South Carolinian community

• Began a speaking tour – 1st women to be featured as public speakers in America

Sarah Moore Grimke

• Wanted to become a lawyer like her father (who served as Chief Justice of S. Carolina’s Supr. Court)

• However, her father was a firm believer in slavery and male dominance

• Considered the workhorse of the 2 sisters in terms of ending slavery and increasing women’s rights

William Lloyd

Garrison

In His Youth

• Born Dec. 12, 1805

• Garrison’s father abandoned the family

• Mom was a hard-worker, supported the family

• WLG sold lemonade & candy

• Became a printer’s apprentice like Ben Franklin

Ardent Abolitionist

• Garrison first joins temperance (anti-alcohol) movement

• Read a book that changed his mind on slavery

• Began writing his own pamphlets, “The Black List,” that pointed out nasty slave owners

• Began The Liberator newspaper on Jan. 1, 1831

• One of the first major abolitionists

• Liberator in print until 13th Amendment (ends slavery)

• Supported the cause though he was beaten, imprisoned, and his newspaper building was burned down at least 3x

• Would go to support women’s rights

Frederick Douglass

In His Youth…

• Born a slave; torn from mother at age 2

• Didn’t know birthday – chose Feb. 14th

• Learned to read & write from slave owner’s wife

• Began teaching himself and other slaves how to read & write

The Man and His Words

• Married a free black woman

• She helped him escape up the Susq. R.

• He moved to Philadelphia, then Rochester

• Becomes a Methodist preacher

• Befriends WLG & writes for The Liberator

• Wrote his autobiography, an instant hit

Legacy

• Wrote the speech “What is a Slave to the 4th of July?” at Women’s Rights movement in Rochester, NY

• Tried to influence John Brown to shy away from violence

• Called out Lincoln for his hypocrisy towards African-Americans

• After Lincoln’s death, he helped mend the war-torn nation

• After Pres. Obama and MLK Jr., probably the most well-known black American

John Brown

In His Youth…• Father was a failed entrepreneur

• Moved around… a lot!

• Grew up with a young black child as a friend

• Had many different jobs

• After the 1st outspoken abolitionist was murdered (Rev. Lovejoy), Brown gives up his jobs and takes to fighting slavery

The Man with the Plan

• Moved to Kansas when slavery was to be voted on by public

• Ended up killing 5 slave owners in a raid

• Had many family members killed in a diff raid there, too

• Moved back East to begin an armed slave revolution

Harpers Ferry, VA• In an attempt to capture 100’s

of guns to give to slaves, he’s captured by the Virginia Army – led by Robert E. Lee

• Most of the party is killed there

• Brown is put on trial and hanged

• Brown’s most lasting impact• Infuriated abolitionists in the

North

• Scared Southern slave owners to believe this was just the beginning