Female Leaders in the Abolition Movement

Sojourner Truth

-Real name is Isabella Baumfree

-Was a slave for her first thirty

years of life

-Took the name Sojourner Truth

when she decided to travel the

country arguing for abolition

-With her speeches, some

disapproved but she urged men

to grant women's rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

-Her and Susan B. Anthony

created the Women's National

League and got 400,000

signatures on a petition to end

slavery in the United States

-The women's movements created

the American Equal Rights

Association to gain Universal

sufferage