1. Abraham Lincoln 1. Mixed beliefs about slavery 2. Slavery was an injustice 3. Did not interfere with slavery in South 4. Against expansion of slavery in West 5. Preserving the Union was main goal 6. Free of prejudice 7. Not an abolitionist

2. Jefferson Davis 1. He was a slave owner 2. Believed slaves were happy & content 3. Believe in states rights 4. Supported slave trade 5. There should be no limits on slavery 6. Became President of the Confederacy

3. Grimke Sisters 1. Only Southern Women Abolitionist leaders 2. Wrote pamphlets against slavery 3. Freed slaves their mother gave them 4. Traveling lecturers for Anti-slavery Society

4. John C. Calhoun 1. Strong supporter of slavery 2. Slavery should not be illegal 3. Slavery was a state issue / decision 4. Slavery was a “positive good” 5. Whites and African Americans can’t exist together 6. States should defy anti-slavery laws

5. Anna Carroll 1. She freed her slaves 2. South did not have right to secede 3. Congress could not legally abolish slavery 4. Slaves should be sent to Latin America 5. Against full integration

6. Frederick Douglass 1. Escaped from slavery 2. Leading abolitionist 3. Lectured against slavery 4. Wrote autobiography 5. Published North Star 6. Wanted former slaves to fight for North 7. “Slavery is wicked…. Like a sin”

7. Hinton Helper 1. White Southerner against slavery 2. Wrote a book 3. Believed slavery hurt whites 4. Poor whites couldn’t compete 5. African Americans should have no rights 6. Believed in segregation

8. Harriet Tubman 1. Escaped from slavery 2. Leading abolitionist 3. Conductor on Underground Railroad 4. Moses of her people 5. Helped 300 slaves escape 6. Helped recruit for John Brown 7. Nurse & spy for Union army

9. William Lloyd Garrison 1. Abolitionist (immediate emancipation) 2. Published the “Liberator” 3. Formed Anti-slavery Society 4. Blamed everybody who tolerated slavery 5. Set fire to the Constitution in protest 6. Said North should secede

10. George Fitzhugh 1. Virginia planter who defended slavery 2. Wrote pamphlets (slavery was good) 3. Believed blacks were inferior 4. Northern workers worse off than slaves 5. Slave masters better than business leaders 6. Wrote a book 7. Supported slave trade