A former slave that spoke against the brutality, degradation, and injustices committed toward slaves from personal experience. Douglass was a early follower of Garrison and also advocated the political and direct actions that needed to be taken to end slavery and prejudice. In 1847, he started The North Star journal, which was an antislavery journal. Douglass also worked closely with the Underground Railroad, which helped the emancipation of slaves, and with Susan B. Anthony.
William Lloyd Garrison
An abolitionist who, in 1831, started publishing an antislavery newspaper called The Liberator. The start of the paper also marked the beginning of the radical abolitionist movement. Garrison was very uncompromising for which he called for the immediate abolition of slavery everywhere without compensation. In 1833, he and other, founded the American Antislavery Society. He often condemned and burned the Constitution in protest for its pro-slavery ways. He also argued for "no Union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins. Partly due to Garrison's radicalism, there was a split in the abolitionist movement. A group of northerners founded the Liberty Party in 1840, believing that political action was more practical than Garrison's crusade.
American Colonization Society
A society, created in 1817, that sought the idea of transporting freed slaves back to Africa. This movement appealed to moderate antislavery reformers and politicians who's racist attitudes led to the hope of removing blacks from America. In 1822, they established and African-American settlement in Monrovia, Liberia. This colonization proved unpractical because in between 1820 and 1860, only 12,000 African Americans were settled in the colony, while the slave population in America grew. It was also unpractical for which many of the African Americans were born in America and did not know about African culture.
Nat Turner
A Virginian slave that, in 1831, led a two-day revolt that ended with the deaths of 55 whites. Due the the violent outcome of the revolt, the whites retaliated by brutally killing hundreds of African Americans in an attempt to squash the revolt. After the revolt, the fear of future uprisings, as well as Garrison's moral attacks put an end to antislavery in the South.