Leaders of the Abolition Movement, Part II Mr. Foster CCMS Social Sciences

Araminta Ross, AKA Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves.

Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger," as she later put it at women's suffrage meetings. She helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. She helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry.

The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists.

Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and Historians have suggested that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad".

Theodore Weld Abolitionist that co- wrote the oral history narratives, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, published in Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Weld's text

William Lloyd Garrison He was the editor of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.

The Liberator A weekly newspaper from Boston that ran continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of January 1, Called for the "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States.

Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."