The white abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers, especially William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Learn how Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and their Abolitionist allies Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Angelina Grimke sought and struggled to end slavery in the United States.

Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, David Walker and other men and women devoted to the abolitionist movement awakened the conscience of the American people to the evils of the enslaved people trade.

abolitionists in history.

• Frederick. Douglass—Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in the 1800s,
• Harriet Beecher Stowe—Harriet Beecher.
• Sojourner Truth—Sojourner Truth was.
• Harriet Tubman—Harriet Tubman was also.
• John Brown—John Brown helped both freed.

Frederick Douglass

Africans carried to North America, including the Caribbean, left mainly from West Africa. Well over 90 percent of enslaved Africans were imported into the Caribbean and South America. Only about 6 percent of African captives were sent directly to British North America.

In fact, throughout the colonial period, Virginia had the largest slave population, followed by Maryland.

Most of the Africans who were enslaved were captured in battles or were kidnapped, though some were sold into slavery for debt or as punishment. The captives were marched to the coast, often enduring long journeys of weeks or even months, shackled to one another.