Major Leaders in Abolition/Emancipation Reform and their Accomplishments

- William Lloyd Garrison was an editor who was an extremely radical white abolitionist who wrote the Liberator.
- Frederick Douglass was a former slave who was taught to read by one of his former owners' wives. He believed that his literacy was his "pathway from slavery to freedom."
- Nat Turner was born into slavery, but was a gifted preacher and avid abolitionist later in life.