Abolition Movement Vocab Chart

All on pg 9 of 4.12/4.11/4.13 packet

Freedom's Journal (1827)

1. 1st African-American Newspaper

2. supported abolition

3. addressed concerns for the lives of free African-Americans

David Walker

1. author of An Appeal… to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)

2. anti-slavery; said “kill or be killed”

3. sought for a change with slavery

The Liberator (1831)

1. Author: William Lloyd Garrison

2. demanded immediate abolition of slavery

3. kind of led to the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)

Harriet Tubman

1. born a slave

2. nicknamed “Moses” - allusion to Bible; man who led Israelites out of Egypt where they were forced into slavery/poverty

3. led slaves on Underground Railroad

Underground RR

1. NOT A REAL RAILROAD

2. network of roads/houses

3. led escaped “runaway slaves” out

The Northstar

1. Abolitionist newspaper

2. written by Frederick Douglass

3. named after the star that runaway slaves followed

Lucretia Mott

1. started the Female Anti-Slavery Society (1833)

2. distributed literature/materials to the Midwest

3. collected signatures for petitions

Grimke Sisters

1. raised in South Carolina - grew up around slavery

2. father would make them work in the field

3. HATED slavery

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

1. written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

2. book about the horrors of slavery

3. was banned in the South