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| a mulatto also known as the "barber of Natchez." He was the master of bondsmen and even "flogged 2 of them". He owned property and lived in New Orleans |
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| written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it seized the emotional power of separating families out of the auction block along with slavery in general for its main plot |
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| American colonization society |
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| founded in 1817 to transport blacks back to Africa |
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| abolitionist, emotionally high-strung & spiritual. Published The Liberator. Most conspicuous abolitionist. A nonresistant pacifist & poor organizer. Favored Northern secession & antagonized both N &S |
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| militantly antislavery newspaper published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison |
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| A freed black woman in NY who fought tirelessly for black emancipation & women's rights |
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| greatest of black abolitionists. Escaped from bondage in 1838, was discovered by abolitionists after giving impromptu speech @ antislavery meeting in Mass. Spoke often despite beatings. Autobiography "Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass" |
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| driven into the House by sensitive southerner. Required that all antislavery appeals be tabled without debate |
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