| A | B |
| As a Congressman he wanted to phase out slavery, but the gag rule prevented him introducing legislation about it. | John Quincy Adams |
| Radical who published "The Liberator" | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Came to abolitionist movement through religious revivals and wrote "The Bible Against Slavery" | Theodore Weld |
| Wife of Weld and her sister, helped to write "American Slavery as It Is" | Angelina and Sarah Grimke |
| Saw himself as carrying out Christ's mission and lead a failed slave rebellion in August, 1831 | Nat Turner |
| Free black who published "An Appeal... to the Color Citizens" | David Walker |
| Former slave who advocated abolitionism and women's rights | Sojourner Truth |
| Plotted slave uprising in VA in 1800 | Gabriel Prosser |
| Wrote the book on the underground railroad: literally. | William Still |
| Plotted slave uprising in SC in 1822. | Denmark Vesey |
| Foremost black aboltionist | Frederick Douglass |
| Aboltionist killed by a mob in Illinois | Elijah P. Lovejoy |