Understanding Abolitionism: Key Figures and Events Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

several abolitionist come-outers put on trial in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1851 were called "poor deluded beings" in The Barnstable Patriot.

the Edmonson sisters (pictured) were African American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became celebrity abolitionists.

the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

only two months after abolitionist William W. Patton wrote new lyrics to the battle song "John Brown's Body" to glorify the attack by the "nineteen men so few", Julia Ward Howe wrote another set of lyrics—the iconic "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

in 1872, Western University in Kansas, USA, selected Charles Henry Langston, abolitionist, politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, as principal of its new normal school.

Jean-Baptiste Belley (pictured), a former slave from Saint-Domingue, became a member of the National Convention of France, where in 1794 he took part in the decision to abolish slavery.

Mary Anne Rawson (pictured) helped in the anti-slavery campaign that reduced the sale of sugar from the West Indies in Sheffield.

The Greek Slave (pictured), a statue by Hiram Powers, became a symbol for abolitionists in the United States in the years prior to the American Civil War.

Moldavia's Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica (pictured) ordered the abolition of slavery after being shocked by the suicide of a Roma cook.

Understanding Abolitionism: Key Figures and Events

1 The famous, "fiery" Abolitionist, ________, from Massachusetts, was considered an "ultra" abolitionist who believed in full civil rights for all black people.

2 On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the ________ adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

3 After the Revolution, it was reorganized in 1784, with ________ as its first president.

4 After 1776, ________ and Moravian advocates helped persuade numerous slaveholders in the Upper South to free their slaves.

5 Abolitionism was a movement in western Europe and the Americas to end the ________ and emancipate slaves.

6 Famous writer Aimé Césaire, leader of the Négritude movement, refused to meet UMP leader ________, who cancelled his planned visit to Martinique.

7 The timing might have been connected with the ________ raging at the time.

8 Some antislavery men joined the ________ in the collapse of the parties; but Edmund Quincy ridiculed it as a mushroom growth, a distraction from the real issues.

9 A radical shift came in the 1830s, led by ________, who demanded "immediate emancipation, gradually achieved."

10 Many American abolitionists took an active role in opposing slavery by supporting the ________.

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