An Age of Reform

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Antebellum abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth advocated

  • A

    Immediate, uncompensated emancipation of enslaved people

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  • B

    Slow, gradual emancipation tied to long indentured-labor terms

  • C

    Voluntary colonization of freed people in West Africa or Haiti

  • D

    The continuation of slavery with modest reforms to the slave codes

Explanation

Garrison's newspaper "The Liberator" was particularly influential; he also burned a copy of the Constitution as pro-slavery.

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