USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which key Abolitionist figure was a runaway slave that was a prominent African American figure in the movement?
A
William Lloyd Garrison
B
Sojourner Truth
C
Frederick Douglass
D
John Brown
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Frederick Douglass (1817–1895) was born a slave, but escaped North to freedom in 1838. He became a celebrated abolitionist speaker, and his speeches were widely circulated in print. Douglass used his lecture fees to aid fugitive slaves and headed the Rochester station of the underground railroad.

Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps one of the most famous abolitionists and Underground Railroad operators, Harriet Tubman, was born into slavery in the early 1820s in Dorchester County, Maryland. In 1849 Tubman fled Maryland for the north.

Detailed explanation-3: -Frederick Douglass–Abolitionist Leader Douglass’s goals were to “abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen.” How else did Douglass promote freedom?

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