Abolitionist Movement & the People Behind It

 

WHAT?

The Abolitionist Movement was a political movement that sought the end of slavery and that slaves would be free from bondage.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

CAUSES

Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and experienced slavery firsthand.

EFFECTS

His testimonies about his experience with slavery fueled the abolitionist movement.

SARAH AND ANGELINA GRIMKE

CAUSES

They grew up in a slave-owning family and saw the oppression firsthand and moved to the North to publish writings against slavery.

EFFECTS

Their activism had an amazing effect on people's view of slavery. They also freed their family's slaves.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

CAUSES

Garrison met Benjamin Lundy, who was an editor for an anti-slavery newspaper, which could've introduced him to abolitionist ideas.

EFFECTS

He created the newspaper "The Liberator", an anti-slavery newspaper. He joined the American Colonization Society, which wanted to send slaves back to Africa to the colony of Liberia.

NAT TURNER

CAUSES

Turner was a slave, who of course, did not want to be a slave anymore and demanded change.

EFFECTS

He led Nat Turner's rebellion, which was the only effective slave rebellion in U.S. history. His rebellion led to many anti-abolitionists using it as an example of why slaves shouldn't be freed and enacted stricter slave codes.