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A group called Quakers
A religious group called Quakers organized the first antislavery society in 1775, they had opposed to slavery since Colonial Times. -
David Walker
David Walker was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. In 1829, while he was living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published AN APPEAL TO THE COLOURED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, and it was a call for black unity and help in the fight against oppression and injustice. -
Northern Slavery
At a time the North had slavery, but by 1804 Northern State Legistures decided to pass a law to eliminate slavery. -
American Colonization Society
In 1817 a society called American Colonization Society was founded.In 1822 President James Monroe helped the society establish a colony named Liberia in Western Africa. -
Underground Railroads
Many abolitionists like Frederick Douglass did more than lecture and write. Some became "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railraod began in 1817. It wasn't actually a real railroad, it was housess where the conductors hid runaway enslaved persons and helped them reach the safe house. -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. He escaped slavery in Maryland in 1838 and settled in Massachusetts. He spoke out against the injustices faced by free African Americans. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is most known for being a Underground Railroad. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. -
Freedom's Journal
In 1827 two African Americans, by the name John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish began the first African American newspaper, it was an antislavery newspaper called FREEDOM'S JOURNAL. And each issue exposed the horrors of slavery and criticized slaveholders. African American David walker wrote articles against slavery in FREEDOM'S JOURNAL. -
The Liberator
In 1831 white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founded THE LIBERATOR, which was a Boston antislavery newspaper. In the first issue William Lloyd Garrison urged abolitionists to take action without a delay and he demanded the immediate freeing for enslaved persons. -
The Fight Against Slavery Expands
In 1833 William Lloyd Garrison founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society. And two years later some abolitionists formed the American Anti-Slavery Society. 63 delegates from 11 states attened the society's first meet. -
Location of enslaved people
Planters relied on enslaved people to work for them like on cotton and tabacco fields. By 1840, about 2.5 million people enslaved loved in the south.
