Abolitionism and Women's Rights

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Abolitionism

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A movement to end slavery and the slave trade.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his anti-slavery newspaper, 'The Liberator.'

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Frederick Douglass

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An escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist, writer, and speaker. He wrote several autobiographies detailing his experiences in slavery.

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Harriet Tubman

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An American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people using the Underground Railroad.

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Underground Railroad

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A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists.

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Sojourner Truth

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An African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She is best known for her speech on racial inequalities, 'Ain't I a Woman?' delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.

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American Colonization Society

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An organization founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa.

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American Anti-Slavery Society

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An abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of this society.

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Lynchings

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Extrajudicial killings by a group, often by hanging, used as a tool of racial terror against African Americans.

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Cult of Domesticity

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A prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th century in the United States and Great Britain. It emphasized new ideas of femininity, the woman's role within the home, and the dynamics of work and family.