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 * HENRY C. WRIGHT** was born in the year of 1797. He was born in Sharon, Connecticut. Wright is one of William LLoyd Garrison's close associates. Wright is perhaps most famous for his radical Natick Resolution essay delivered to an audience in Natick, Massachusetts in December 1859, stemming from an earlier speech delivered in May 1857 in front of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Still claiming to be faithful to non-resistance, Wright argued to the Society that true abolitionists should furnish arms for slave insurrection. Wright served an apprenticeship as a hatmaker before studying at Andover Theological Seminary. After his ordination in 1823, he served as the pastor of the Congregational Church in West Newsbury, Massachusetts, as a lecture agent for the American Sunday School Union, and as a minister to children in Boston. In 1835 he joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and served as one of Theodore Dwight Weld's "seventy agents" until the executive board of the American Anti-Slavery Society removed him in 1837 because of his ultra opinions. About the same time he gave up his lecturing agency in the American Peace Society, which was also discomfitted by his radicalism, and in 1838 helped found the New England Non-Resistance Society. Nonresistance, the foundation of Wright's reform philosophy, proclaimed the sovereignty of individual conscience and opposed to all forms of coercion, violence, and the dominion of person over person. He died in the year of 1870.


 * WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON** was born on December 10, 1805. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He was a journalist who published a newspaper called The //Liberator.// Garrison founded The New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832. He was best known for assisting in the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. He died on May 24, 1879. He died in New York, New York.


 * TEDDY DWIGHT WELD** was born on November 23, 1803. He was born in Hampton, Connecticut. Weld became one of the leaders of the antislavery movement in 1830. Weld published The Bible Against Slavery, a powerful pamphlet, which laid out religious justifications for abolition. He was also the author of The Power of Congress over the District of Columbia. He was also the co-author of American Slavery as it Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses with the Grimké sisters//.// Weld helped train the famous Grimké sisters as anti-slavery speakers and married Angelina in 1838. He worked with John Quincy Adams to push abolition as a political matter in Congress and formed an interracial school in New Jersey during the 1850’s. Through his tireless efforts, Weld became one of the most important and influential abolitionist of the antebellum period. Teddy Dwight Weld died February 3, 1895.


 * LIBERTY PARTY** was formed in 1840. It was formed when some members of the Anti-Slavery Society were not satisfied with the radical leadership of William Lloyd Garrison. They formed a rival organization in 1839 which was called The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. It was changed to the Liberty Party a year later. The party included abolitionists who were willing to work within electoral politics to try to influence people to support their goals. The Liberty Party selected James Birney to be their candidate in the 1840 presidential election. Birney did not have much support with only 6,797 votes. However, in the 1844 election he received 62,103 votes. In 1848 and 1852, Gerrit Smith was their unsuccessful presidential candidate. In August 1848 members of the Liberty Party joined with anti-slavery members of the Whig Party to form the Free-Soil Party.

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 * FREDERICK DOUGLASS** was born on February in the year 1818. Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. He became a leader of the abolitionist movement after he escaped from slavery. Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history. He died on February 20, 1895.


 * NEGRO CONVENTION MOVEMENT** had its origin in the North during the early nine teenth century. In 1830, a group of "Free Negroes" seeking "to devise ways and means for the bettering of their condition" met in Philadelphia in what is usually regarded as the first Negro Convention. For the next five years, annual national conventions were held, with subsequent conclaves both on the national and state levels meeting intermittently from 1835 until the late nineteenth century. The Convention Movement died during the Civil War as emancipation came to the four million enslaved people in the South and soon afterwards the promise of citizenship during Reconstruction led, prematurely as it turned out, to the belief that African Americans would fully participate in the nation's politics.

**HARRIET TUBMAN** was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery, she was of purely African ancestry. She was raised under harsh conditions, and subjected to whippings even as a small child. She slept as close to the fire as possible on cold nights and sometimes stuck her toes into the smoldering ashes to avoid frostbite. Cornmeal was her main source of nutrition and occasionally meat of some kind as her family had the privilege to hunt and fish. Most of her early childhood was spent with her grandmother who was too old for slave labor. With the help of William Still, she learned about the workings of the Underground Railroad. In 1850, Harriet helped her first slaves escape to the north. She sent a message to her sister's oldest son that said for her sister and family to board a fishing boat in Cambridge. This boat would sail up the Chesapeake Bay where they would meet Harriet in Bodkin's Point. When they got to Bodkin's Point, Harriet guided them from safehouse to safehouse in Pennsylvania which was a free state until they reached Philadelphia.

1.) Where was Henry C. Wright born? A.) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B.) New York, New York C.) Detroit, Michigan D.) __**Sharon, Connecticut**__
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2.) When did William Lloyd Garrison find the New England Anti-Slavery Society? A.) 1855 B.) __**1832**__ C.) 1803 D.) 1879

3.) Who did Teddy Dwight Weld marry in 1838? A.) **__Angelina Grimké__** B.) Harriet Tubman C.) Angelina Jolie D.) Sarah Grimké

4.) When was the Liberty Party formed? A.) 1839 B.) 1776 C.) **__1840__** D.) 1845

5.) When did Frederick Douglass die? A.) February 14, 1895 B.) __**February 20, 1895**__ C.) December 25, 1895 D.) July 4, 1776

6.) In 1830, where did a group of "free negroes" meet to devise ways and means for the bettering of their condition? A.) 1995 B.) __**1830**__ C.) 1840 D.) 1850

7.) Where was Harriet Tubman born? A.) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B.) New York, New York C.) Detroit, Michigan D.) **__Dorchester County, Maryland__**