Chapter 12

The Road to the Civil War

Section 12-1: Abolitionists

Pages 528-534

Vocabulary

• Abolitionist: reformers who worked to end slavery

• The Fugitive Slave Act– 1850: required all citizens to capture

runaways

• William Lloyd Garrison: – founded “The Liberator”– Abolitionist from Mass.– Called for the immediate end of slavery

Abolitionists

• The Grimke Sisters– From SC, moved to PA– Freed their slaves– Wrote firsthand accounts of slavery

African-American Abolitionists

• David Walker– Free man, wanted slaves to rebel

• Frederick Douglass– Born a slave in Md., escaped in 1838– Mass. Anti-slavery society– Powerful and influential speaker and writer

• Sojourner Truth– Born a slave named Isabella Baumfree– Dedicated life to abolition/women’s rights

• Harriet Tubman– Most successful conductor of “The Underground Railroad”