ugh Prosser's revolt ended in defeat, it terrified slave owners throughout the south. Prosser's revolt was the closest America came to a revolution on the same scale as that in Haiti. Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass was born in 1817, in Talbot County, near Easton, Maryland. He was the child of a slave mother and an unknown white father. He greatly resented the frequent abuses of his condition. Yet he managed to learn how to read and write and to conspire successfully for freedom. He escaped in 1838, married a free colored woman in New York City, and moved to an abolitionist atmosphere at New Bedford, Massachusetts. Then began his remarkable career as a devoted follower of Garrison and an influential orator and agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In 1845 he published the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. After visiting England and Ireland, where he was lionized, he returned in 1847 with enough funds to publish his newspaper, North Star, which not only demanded immediate emancipation but also woman suffrage and other liberal causes. President Lincoln counseled with him on race questions and postwar presidents rewarded him with various honors such as the minister-ship to Haiti. He died in 1895.William Lloyd GarrisonWilliam Lloyd Garrison was born in 1805, in Newburyport, Massachussets. In 1831 Garrison founded the Liberator, a militant antislavery newspaper, to promote the abolitionist cause. For 35 years, he campaigned for immediate and complete abolition of slavery. Favoring moral persuasion over violence or political involvement, he helped organize The American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and was its president (1843-65). Leaders of the Liberty and free-Soil parties overshadowed Garrison in the 1840s, but he continued to scandalize Northern audiences. In 1854 garrison attained additional national notoriety when he burned a copy of the Constitution at a meeting in Framingham, Mass., on July 4. The coming of t...
