The Abolitionist Movement

By Felix Zhan

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Liberia (American Colonization Society)

  • Sojourner Truth escapes with her daughter.

  • William Garrison proposes emancipation of slavery

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • The American Anti-Slavery Society is founded

  • Frederick Douglass runs away to New York City

  • The Liberty Party is formed

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected as president