Harriet Tubman​

​Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist. She was born as a slave. Once she escaped from slavery, she wanted to help other slave escape as well. She made more than 19 missions to rescue over 300 slaves. She had them put in safe houses known as the Underground Railroad​
 
Saddojourner Truth
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Saddojourner Truth was one of 13 children born as a slave.  She was released from slavery in 1827. She never learned to read or write but she can speak in a powerful meaning. She has spoken to congress and 2 presidents about women’s rights and abolition.  She is most well known for her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech she gave at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1851. She  also helped recruit black troops to fight in the Civil War.

 Fredrick Douglas

 When he escaped from slavery, he became a leader of voice of the abolition movement. He became one of the most famous of his time. He advising presidents and talked to thousands on a range of causes, including women’s rights. He also published an anti-slavery paper in his home of Rochester, NY called The North Star. This shows he was a big advocate for the abolition.

By the later 1850s, organized abolitionism in politics had been subsumed by the larger sectional crisis over slavery prompted by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown‘s raid on Harpers Ferry. The movement again split in 1865, when Garrison and his supporters asserted that the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery made continuation of the American Anti-Slavery Society unnecessary. But a larger group led by Wendell Phillips, insisting that only the achievement of complete political equality for all black males could guarantee the freedom of the former slaves, successfully prevented Garrison from dissolving the society. It continued until 1870 to demand land, the ballot, and education for the freedman. Only when the Fifteenth Amendment extending male suffrage to African-Americans was passed did the society declare its mission completed.