1. The March to Reform Reasons for Reform Temperance and The Bottle
Prison and Asylum
Education and Leadership

2. Prison Life

3. Education Reform
Only the wealthy were able to get a good quality education
Horace Mann, pushed for public education funded by taxes
He argued that “education was the great equalizer” for the poor and minorities

4. Educational Reform
In 1837, Olberlin College begins admitting women and African Americans
In cities young boys at 14 left school to work to help their families

5. African Colonization
The American Colonization Society in 1817 pushed for the release of slaves and their return to Africa
Some Northerners support this because they believe that blacks should be separate from whites
Some Southerners support colonization because they would ship away free blacks
1,400 African Americans go to Africa colonize Liberia

6. Membership to the American Colonization Society

7. American Anti-Slavery Society
Founded in 1833 it sponsored lectures, sent antislavery petitions to Congress, published journals and printed pamphlets that attacked slavery
Free slaves would tell their stories to a white audience
The society's activities were usually attacked by mobs supporting slavery

8. Henry Lloyd Garrison
Published The Liberator, a newsletter that demanded an end to slavery
His writings angered Southerners because he wants slaves freed immediately
While in Boston in 1835 a mob will beat him. The beating wins people to his cause. Because it exposes supporters of slavery as inhumane individuals

9. Frederick Douglass Born to a white father and black mother
Ship caulker who escapes slavery to become a leading abolitionist speaker
His book, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass exposes slavery’s horrors
He will publish The Lone Star, an abolitionist paper

10. Sojourner Truth Freed slave who claimed to her “heavenly voices”
She spoke out for women’s rights and for abolition
In 1851 demanded to speak at a women’s convention in Ohio
Lectured about the cruel treatment encountered as a slave.