Abolitionist movement

Olivia Ricks
January 12, 2002
Abolitionist Movement Project
Period 1











Thesis Statement: As the anti-slavery movement moved on it became clear that the reasoning and opinion of whites on abolition issues were relevant, even though the voice of an African American is more heartfelt and emotional. Sojourner Truth and Fredrick Douglass were great abolitionist. They are still being remembered as heroes along with other abolitionist such as William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Mott and Quaker Benjamin Lundy. Those are just some of the people that proved that the justification of slavery by whites was bogus.












Isabella was born between 1797 and 1800. She later changed her name to Sojourner Truth (Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1875). She was born to Betsy and James. James and Betsy were the slaves of Colonial Ardinburgh Hurly. Colonial Ardinburgh died when Isabella was a baby. She and her parents beca...