Major leaders in Abolition/Emancipation Reform

William Lloyd Garrison

David Walker

Nat Turner

Was known as the most radical white abolitionist. He was an editor as well as active in religious reform movements. Garrison started his own paper, "The Liberator" in 1831 to deliver a message that stated: immediate emancipation- the freeing of slaves with no payment to slave holders.

Was a free black writer who advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to end slavery.

Was born into slavery in 1800. He was a gifted preacher and he believed that he had been chosen to lead his people out of bondage. With nearly 80 followers, Turners band attacked four plantations and killed almost 60 white inhabitants before being captured by state and federal troops.