Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass And Harriet Tubman

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Slavery is the “condition in which one human being was owned by another” as said by Encyclopedia Britannica. Slaves were not thought of as people in the 1800s. Instead, they were reduced to nothing more than their masters' property. There were many people who were abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. The fight to end slavery was one of the most important civil rights movements in the history of the United States because it worked to free people who were treated as inhuman and nothing more than property.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was the women who Abraham Lincoln is quoted to have said, “So you are the little women who wrote the book that started the war”to her. Stowe lived from June 14, 1811 to …show more content…
He was born in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818 ,but the exact date is unknown because birth records were not kept for slaves. He later died on February 20, 1895. When Douglass was still a slave his “owner’s” wife Sophia Auld taught him how to read and write, even though this was against the law. It was illegal because many thought if the slaves could read and write, they would band together and rebel. Once he escaped, though he taught other slaves how to read and write which would help the slaves if and when they escaped. This gave many of them hope. He also delivered speeches and his first one was at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery annual convention in Nantucket. Although many times during these speeches he would be chased off and beaten, he continued to talk out against slavery. “The North Star” newspaper weekly was created by him. He also wrote about his life as a slave in the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave.” His words reached out to people and helped many realize how horrible slavery …show more content…
history. Many people helped in fighting against slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were some of the abolitionist leaders of it and fought against the injustice enslavement of people, each in their own way. This movement has effects on the world even today. Even though slavery is now outlawed the next step was equality. The civil rights movement in the 1960 was that fight for equality where African Americans fought for the right to vote and against segregation. If the abolitionist movement never happened, neither would the civil movement.If these movements never happened who knows how many bright minded people who would go on to change the world would be discriminated against and confined to working hard labor. All of the amazing scientists,actors, writers would never be known and the world would be without their contributions. Abolitionism still inspires us today as we fight against racism and prejudice against any group of people who some consider lesser.

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“Frederick Douglass.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 13 Feb. 2018, www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 27 Feb. 2018,
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