Frederick Douglass
● He is African­American
● He escaped from slavery
● He was born in slavery and escaped
when he was 20 years old
● His master’s wife taught him to read
and write
● He is an American
● He looks like Einstein
● He was an abolitionist
● He edited an important black
newspaper
● He was an author and orator
● He supported women’s rights
● He supported the Civil War
● He moved to Washington DC to work
as an advisor to President Lincoln
● He thought slavery was wrong and
should be illegal
● He thought that slavery was evil
● He thought that everyone should
have rights
● He knew that in slavery people
weren’t treated equally
● He gave speeches to stop slavery
● He died in 1895
● He was a famous person
Sojourner Truth
● She was born in slavery in New York
● She escaped from slavery in 1827
● She had 5 children. 3 were sold away
from her.
● In 1843 she moved to Battlecreek,
Michigan
● She gave a speech in 1851
● She travelled to Washington DC and
met President Lincoln
● She was an important abolitionist
● She thought slavery was wrong
● She thought that women should have
their own rights
● She couldn’t vote because she was a
woman
● She was a powerful speaker.
● She spoke out about slavery because
she thought that it was wrong.
● She died in 1883
● She was six feet tall.