Major leaders in Abolition and emancipation/ accomplishments

William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, and Frederick Douglass were some of the major abolition and emancipation leaders. William Garrison started his own paper, The Liberator, in 1831. He founded the New England Anti-slavery society in 1832 followed by the national American Anti-slavery Society a year later. David Walker published his Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829. He advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to end slavery. Frederick Douglass had been taught to read and write by the wife of one of his owners. Douglass later started his own newspaper called The North Star

William Lloyd Garrison