Early & Radical Abolitionism

American Colonization Society

Want to take the free population of free African Americans and bring to places such as Nigeria

William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist who published the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator

Sojourner Truth

Former enslaved woman, abolitionist, and women's rights activist

Frederick Douglass

Former enslaved man, abolitionist, and powerful speaker/writer

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that exposed the horrors of slavery and familial separation

How did Southerners respond to anti-slavery agitation?

1. Mad

2. Ban books relating to slavery

Compare and contrast abolitionists w/ free-soilers

1. Abolitionists wanted to ban slavery everywhere

2. Free soilers wanted to stop it from spreading