Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements (SS4H4)

C. M. Bell, Frederick Douglass, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

SS4H4 Examine the main ideas of the abolitionist and suffrage movements

1. Discuss contributions of and challenges faced by Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.

Suggested Collections

• African American Literature (Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library)

• Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections (Auburn Avenue Research Library)

• Rebecca Latimer Felton Papers (Hargrett Library)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• Abolitionist movement

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Slavery

• Suffrage movement

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman 

• Underground Railroad

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• Abolitionist movement

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman 

• Sojourner Truth

• Suffrage movement

• Susan B. Anthony

• Underground Railroad

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• Anti Slavery Movements

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth 

• Suffragists

• Susan B. Anthony

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Topics in Chronicling America - Amelia Bloomer

• Topics in Chronicling America - Bleeding Kansas

• Topics in Chronicling America - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Topics in Chronicling America - Harriet Tubman

• Topics in Chronicling America - The Nineteenth Amendment

• Topics in Chronicling America - Slavery and Abolition

• Topics in Chronicling America - Susan B. Anthony

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• The American Abolitionist Movement 

• The Fifteenth Amendment

• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

• The New Woman

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement

• Women’s Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

NGE Articles

• Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)

• Slave Narratives

• Slavery and Abolitionism Pamphlet

• Woman Suffrage

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• Sojourner Truth

• Classroom: Frederick Douglass

• Douglass Publishes “The North Star”

• Diary of an Anti-Slavery Plantation Daughter | Georgia Stories

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Orator, Author, and Activist Video

• A Eulogy to the Movement

• Frederick Douglass | Orator, Editor, and Abolitionist Video

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman | Abolition Activist Video

• Sojourner Truth | Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Activist Video

• Two Examples of National Suffragists

• Upstate, Downstate: The Women's Movement

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Juliette Gordon Low

• Mapping Slave Resistance in Antebellum Georgia

• Mother Mathilda Beasley

• Nineteenth Century

• Women’s Suffrage Movement

Posters and Postcards

• SS4H4 poster

• SS4H4 postcard