By Rylee Parnell, Diamond Johnson, and Jarred Reynolds

Harriet Beecher Stowe ( ) Stowe the abolitionist movement with the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Though she was white and had never been a slave, her fictional account of the horrible experiences of a slave family.

William Lloyd Garrison ( ) He was born on Dec. 12, 1805 in Newburyport, Mass. And was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of,The Liberator, and as one of the founder s of the American Anti-Slavery Act.

Dred Scott ( ) He was a slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of His case was based on the fact that he and his wife, Harriet, but had lived in territories that slavery was illegal.

Sojourner Truth ( ) Sojourner Truth was the self-given name of Isabella Baumfree, am american activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. She was one of 13 children of James and Elizabeth Baumfree.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett ( ) Raised in Mississippi after the Civil War, Wells worked her way through Rust College and taught school in Memphis, Tenn. A writer, she became part-owner of a newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech.

Harriet Tubman ( Reverently called “Moses” by the hundreds of slaves whom she helped escape and the thousands she inspired, Harriet Tubman became the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad to aid slaves escaping to free states or Canada. She was born a slave in Maryland. Her birth name was Araminta and she was called Minty until she changed it to Harriet in her early teen years. At the age of 15 she sustained a head injury while blocking the path of an overseer.

Fredrick Douglass ( ) Fredrick Douglass was born in a slave cabin, in February 1818, near the town of Easton, near Maryland. At the age of 8 he was sent to Baltimore to live as a houseboy with Hugh and Sophia Auld. Soon after his mistress taught him the alphabet. After her husband forbade it Douglass took it upon himself to read and write. By the age of 13 he purchased a copy of the The Columbian Orater, which helped him gain an understanding of the power of the spoken and written word. Returning to the eastern Coast at 15 he became a field hand. There he experienced most of the horrifying conditions that plagued slaves during that time. At age 18 he was sent back to Baltimore to live with the Auld’s, and in early September, 1838, he at the age of 20 he escaped slavery by impersonating a sailor. He went first to New Bradford, Mass. Where he and his wife Anna Murray began raising a family. In Oct. 1841, he became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Llyod Garrison. He published his own newspaper, The North Star. He published 3 autobiographies and was internationally recognized as one of the greatest abolitionists.