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-Garrison was a white editor and a radical abolitionist.
-He started his own newspaper called "The Liberator" in 1831
to call for
emancipation.
-Walker was a free black who published a book "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" in 1829.
-He believed that slaves should fight for their right to be free instead
of waiting for it to happen.
-Turner was born into slavery in 1800 in South-ampton County, Virginia.
-He was a skilled preacher who was chosen by the people to lead his fellow slavery out of bondage.
-He led a rebellion, taking over 4 plantations and killing nearly 60 white plantation owners before being captured by the federal troops.
-Turner was tried and hanged.
-His rebellion only caused whites
to kill over 200 innocent blacks
slaves and strengthened the
grip that plantation owners
had on slaves.
-Douglass was born into slavery in 1817.
-His slaveowner's wife taught him how to read and write until her husband forbid her from teaching young Douglass because reading "would forever unfit him to be a slave".
-Despite this set-back,
Douglass continued to
study because he believed
that it was his pathway
to freedom
-He eventually escaped slavery and started his own newspaper called "The North Star".
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner