Major Leaders in the Abolition/Emancipation Reform

William Lloyd Garrison

-Most Radical white

abolitionist

-Started his own paper titled

"The Liberator" in 1831

-It delivered the message to

emancipate slaves with no

payment to slaveholders

-Founded the New England

Anti- Slavey Society

David Walker

-A free black

-Published "Appeal to the

Colored Citizens of the World"

-In that, he advised blacks to

fight for their freedom rather

than to wait for it to happen

Frederick Douglass

-Born into slavery in 1817

-Was taught to read and write

by the wife of one of his

owners

-By 1838 he had a job as a ship

caulker but couldn't keep his

earnings

- Escaped to New York and

had freedom

-Read "The Liberator" and

Garrison was so impressed

with Douglass that he made

him a lecturer