Learned

(WLG) went to jail once for writing about people who owned people in slavery.

Abraham Lincoln freed the people in slavery when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

(WLG) Lived in Boston Mass.

(WLG) knew Abraham Lincoln, the Grimke Sisters and Fredrick Douglass.

(WLG) worked for equal rights for other oppressed people like women and native Americans as well as people freed from slavery.

People in the 1800's didn't live as long as today.

Americans used slavery to make money.

Quakers were people that often worked to abolish slavery because slavery was against their religion.

(WLG) Wrote the Liberator to inform people about the effects of slavery.

(WLG) is important to study because he helped to change his country to become a better place to live for everyone.