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Lyndia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child was a Massachusetts-born white woman who was a prolific anti-slavery writer and activist. She published numerous works, including essays, articles, letters, and novels, and edited The Anti-Slavery Standard and a children's magazine. Through her work she advocated racial and gender equality, as well as the abolition of slavery. -
Maria W.Stewart
a free-born African American woman, was the first American-born woman of any color to deliver a series of public lectures. Fired by political and religious zeal, Stewart began lecturing and writing pamphlets in 1831. She felt driven to better the lives of her fellow African Americans, and lectured on a whole range of topics of vital importance to the black community, including abolition, equal rights, colonization, educational opportunities, and racial pride and unity. -
Henry Highland Garnet
In August of 1843 in Buffalo, New York, Henry Highland Garnet gave an inspirational speech that shocked the delegates of the National Negro Convention.Frederick Douglass spoke out against the speech to the convention. -
Fedrick Douglas is Born
The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He spent his early years with his grandparents and with an aunt, seeing his mother only four or five times before her death when he was seven. -
Harriet Tubman
was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. -
William Still
William Still was born in New Jersey, the son of former slaves. In 1847 he married Letitia George, and began working in the office of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. He was soon assisting fugitive slaves on their flight north, and when Philadelphia abolitionists organized a vigilance committee in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, they named Still as its chairman. -
Mary Ann Shadd
Mary Ann Shadd was born to free African American parents who were active abolitionists. She began teaching at the age of sixteen, but when the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed, she joined the waves of black migrants moving to Canada. -
Frances Ellen Watkins Haper
Frances Ellen Watkins was the best-known and most respected nineteenth century African American poet and novelist. She was also a powerful abolitionist and tireless community activist. -
The National Negro Convention
This first meeting of the National Negro Convention would initiate a trend that would continue for the next three decades. The formation of another organization had been recommended -- one which would be called the "American Society of Free Persons of Labor." This group would branch out to several states and hold their own conventions. -
Resoultion
Fedrick douglas made an resoultion to be free from slavery -
Pennsylvania Hall
A grand structure that was once called "one of the most commodious and splendid buildings in the city," Pennsylvania Hall was constructed to provide a forum for discussing "the evils of slavery.after four days of dedication ceremonies and abolition-related meetings, the building was burned to the ground by an angry mob. -
Provinicial Freeman
In 1853 in Canada, she established the Provincial Freeman, the first newspaper founded by a black woman anywhere in North America. -
Angelina Grimke Weld's
Speaking as a southern woman who had seen firsthand the "demoralizing influence" of slavery and its "destructiveness to human happiness," Angelina Grimké Weld gave an inspiring speech at Pennsylvania Hall amidst a tumult of rocks thrown through windows and the shouting of an unruly mob.
