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Sojourner Truth was an American evangelist, abolitionist, women's right activist, and author who was born into slavery before she escaped to freedom in 1826.

Truth preached about her abolitionism and equal rights for all. Truth was born as Isabella Baumfree in 1797  to enslaved parents James and Elizabeth Baumfree in Ulster County, New York.

In Sojourner's early life she was one of the 12 children born to James and Elizabeth. Her dad was an enslaved man captured in Ghana while her mother was the daughter of  an enslaved person from Guinea. Truth was known as "belle" at first before she was first sold at an auction at for $100 at 9 years old. She was later also sold twice more over the following to years to John Dumont in West park New York.

As an antiracist Sojourner was one of the most foremost leader of the abolition movement, an early advocate of women's right, and a universal suffrage and prison reform.

Sojourner Truth impacted the world because her civil work earned her an invitation to meet president Lincoln and after her death nearly 4 decades later, in 1920 the constitutional amendment granted women the ability to vote.

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John brown was an ardent abolitionist who worked with the underground railroad and the lead of gileadites and other endeavors to end slavery.

Brown was born to Ruth Mills and Owen Brown on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut, in a Calvinist house hold which is a religion that believe that god controls people's action and has already decided their fate. As a 12 year old by travelling through Michigan he witnessed an African American boy being beaten and it haunted him for years which inspired him into freeing slaves.

Brown recruited 22 mens in all and his 2 sons Owen and Watson and several freed enslaved people from Missouri and lead them to freedom in Canada

The events of rebelling was that Brown freed a lot of enslaved people who later on helped on freeing other enslaved African Americans.

Although Browns raid failed He helped make further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible and became an important impetus of the Civil War. He died December 2nd, 1859.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was born on February 12, 1809 and died on April 15, 1865.

Lincoln grew up in Larue County, KY. Lincoln wasn't born into a rich family so he had to work hard to achieve what he wanted in life.

As an anti-racist Lincoln declared on January 1, 1863 that all the rebellion slaves in states against the Union ¨shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.¨ That rule applied to all the union alliances except states like Delaware, Missouri, Maryland, and Kentucky.

Lincolns work affected the United States because he was able to oversee the American Civil War and he abolished slavery.

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Nat Turner was a Black American slave who was born into slavery on October, 2 1800 on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia/

Turner claimed to be a preacher who preached about being the chosen one from god and that god has lead him to free the slaves from the state of being a slave.

Turner was a rebellion who opposed slavery on August 31, 1831 He lead a group of violent rebellion and recruited about 40 to 50 slaves.

Turner and his men continued their killing spree through across the country and were able to collect weapons and horses from those they have killed. The rebellions killed about 55 men, women, and children. Once him and the rebellion were planning to over throw the Governor  him and his men were taken by surprise by white men and the plantation in Jerusalem.

About 100 to 200 African slaves were killed. Turner fled and was hiding for 6 weeks until he was eventually caught on October 30th, 1831. Turner plead not guilty and believed the work he did was from god. He was later hung on November 11, 1831.

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Ida B wells was born as a slave in Holly Springs Mississippi on July 16, 1862. She was a journalist and led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.

Around the 1800s and the early 1900s mobs of white people would lynch or kill black people. Wells started groups that worked for African-American justice.

In her early childhood, Wells was one of the oldest daughter to James and Lizzie. About six months after Wells birth president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all of the slaves. But it was hard for her living in Mississippi as an African American, Wells faced prejudiced and were restricted by discrimination because of the color of their skin.

Wells parent were active in the Republican party during reconstruction, after the civil war ended. Her father, James was involved in with the freedom aid society and helped start Shaw's university a school for the newly freed slaves. It is now called Rusty College. Wells studied there for her early schooling but had to drop out at the age of 16 when both of her parents and one of her siblings died from yellow fever. Wells took care of her other siblings and got a job as a teacher.

In 1892, three African American men opened up a grocery store in Memphis, their new business took away customers from a white owned store in the neighborhood. One night as the black men were guarding their store they ended up killing several white people who attacked their store. They were arrested and put to jail before they got to court. A mob of people took them from their cells and lynched and killed them. These brutal killing incensed wells and she wrote articles about how it was unfair.

In 1895, Wells married a man named Ferdinand Barnett. They had 4 children together but she still remained to her social and political activism. In 1898 Wells brought her anti-lynching campaign to the White House. She led a protest in Washington D.C and and called for president William Mckinley for reforms.

Wells began several Civil rights organizations. In 1896, she formed the National Association Of Colored Women, she was also a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of people of color, known as NAACP. She created the first African-American kindergarten and fought for women's right.

Ida B Wells died at the age of 69 from kidney disease on March 25, 1931 in Chicago. Through her writing, speech and protest, Wells fought against prejudice no matter the danger to herself.
She once said "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice then to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."