Important history people

william loyd garrison

Wrote the Liberator, the most influential anti-slavery newspaper

Harriet Tubman

conductor of the underground railroad, saved 300+ slaves

Fredrick Douglass

wrote the North Star (newspaper) and “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Sojourner Truth

wrote “Ain’t I a woman?” speech

Angelina Grimke

wrote speech about effects of slavery and encouraged women to take a stand

lucrecia Mott

excluded from World Anti-Slavery Convention because she was a woman

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

wrote declaration of Sentiments

Margaret Fuller

led conversations in boston

Anne Hutchinson

preached about male authority

Mary Dyer

hanged for her “rebellious” beliefs

Emma Willard

founded first school for girls

elizabeth Blackwell

first woman to get medical degree

Lucy Stone

firsst woman to marry and keep her name

Stone and Blackwell

wrote letter about men owning women

Catherine Beecher

worked to improve women education