2. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
3. What woman of Canterbury, Connecticut, was imprisoned because she
exerted interest in the education of the Negro?
4. Who was called "The Joan of Arc" of the anti-slavery movement?
5. Who was the first free-born Negro called to service to speak against
slavery?
6. What great man of our race helped to convince the slave holder and
the abolitionist that if the Negro were freed and allowed a chance, he
could do great things?
7. The charter of what college started with the following words: "God
hath made of one blood, all nations that dwell upon the face of the
earth?"
8. How many free Negroes in Virginia were paying poll taxes in 1814?
9. What famous Southerner secured the enactment of the law providing for
the patenting of inventions of slaves?
10. What led to the establishment of Oberlin College?
2. He was a great reformer and one of the greatest upholders of the theory that slavery was a moral and social evil, a sin. He was forced to leave Baltimore, by members of his race, because of his fiery utterances. He said, "I shall strenuously contend
for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population. I will be as
uncompromising as justice on the subject-I am not wrong; I will not
equivocate, I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard"!
3. Prudence Crandall was imprisoned because she admitted Negro girls to
her academy.
4. Abby Kelly Foster. She was a great abolitionist and a very energetic
anti slavery lecturer.
5. Charles Redmond was the first free-born Negro called to service to
speak against slavery. Until the rise of Frederick Douglass, he was
reputed to be the ablest representative of the Negro race.
6. Frederick Douglass was the living example of what the slave was and
what he might become. He was a fugitive from slavery in Maryland.
7. The Charter of Berea College, in Kentucky, established by John G.
Fee, abolitionist.
8. There were 5,547.
9. Jefferson Davis, in the year 1859. The law was: "That in case the original inventor or discoverer of the art, machine or improvement for which a patent is solicited, is a slave, he may receive a patent after complying with the formal requirements and
presenting the oath of his master".
10. In Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati the ardent discussion of slavery pro and con led to an open dispute resulting in the division of the students. As it was largely attended by Southern students, a separation was necessary. When the trustees
tried to prevent further discussion, four-fifths of the students withdrew and under Asa Minor and John Morgan, retired to the Western Reserve where they established Oberlin College.