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William Lloyd Garrison speaks to a crowd in Nantucket and introduces Frederick Douglass.

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves full legal.

Frederick Douglass offers a eulogy to the abolitionist movement at Garrison's funeral.

Theodore Weld, Angelina Grimke, and Sarah Grimke's 1839 book documented slavery's horrors.

William Lloyd Garrison moved to Boston at 22. Abolishing slavery is his main cause.

What was the economic value of slavery to 19th century American life?

In 1835, William Lloyd Garrison and Lewis Tappan proposed an anti-slavery campaign.

The Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah, lectured against slavery throughout the 1830s.

Frederick Douglass had just begun his life as a slave when he watched his aunt get beaten

The Model T

Henry Ford's Model T revolutionized the automobile industry in 1908.

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