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Women's Suffrage: Index
by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler Chronological Record of the Wi...IndexAbbott, Rev. Lyman, 126Abolitionists. See Anti-SlaveryAcklen, Col. Joseph H., 424Acts of…Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Chapter XI
Chapter XI I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally succeeded in making, my escape from slavery. But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it…Harriet Tubman
Name at birth: Araminta RossHarriet Tubman helped hundreds of American slaves escape along the secret route to freedom known as the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Her success…Sojourner Truth
Name at birth: Isabella BaumfreeSojourner Truth began life as a slave and ended it as a celebrated anti-slavery activist. Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York and was sold several times…Peter Williams, Jr. Biography
Peter Williams, Jr.religious leaderBorn: 1780Birthplace: New Brunswick, New Jersey Williams grew up to become active in the Methodist Church. In 1818, with the blessings of prominent white…William Lloyd Garrison
Publisher of the newspaper The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison was a famously fierce opponent of slavery in the two decades preceding the American Civil War. From poor beginnings in Massachusetts,…Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Note on Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew…Mann, Horace
(Encyclopedia) Mann, HoraceMann, Horacemăn [key], 1796–1859, American educator, b. Franklin, Mass. He received a sparse preliminary schooling, but succeeded in entering Brown in the sophomore class…Beecher, Henry Ward
(Encyclopedia) Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813–87, American Congregational preacher, orator, and lecturer, b. Litchfield, Conn.; son of Lyman Beecher and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He graduated from…Tubman, Harriet
(Encyclopedia) Tubman, Harriet, c.1820–1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful “…Trending
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