He is most.
remembered for Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. Pickett graduated from West.
Point in 1846 and remained in the U.S. Army until 1861, when he joined the Confederate.
army. On July 3, 1863 he led his troops on a spearhead attack on Cemetery Ridge that .
was supposed to break through the center of the union line. This has been called the.
Confederacy's "high-water mark".
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William Garrison .
William Garrison played a major role in the American Abolitionist movement. He.
published a paper called the Liberator which said that slavery was wrong and we needed.
change immediately. In 1833 Garrison was head of a meeting that organized the American .
Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison's opinions were used throughout the existence of the.
society. Garrison cooperated easily with other major abolitionists until the 1840s when he.
met people like James Birney and Elizer Wright, Jr. Some of his beliefs drove these people.
from the society. Garrison didn't want slavery to be ended violently, but in the 1850s he.
used violent resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. After the Civil War Garrison.
worked to help black equality.
Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in 1817. In 1838 he obtained.
seaman's papers from a free black and escaped to New Bedford. In 1841 he joined the.
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. With Douglass's great speeches, people didn't believe.
that he used to be a slave. Douglass wrote a book called Life and Times of Frederick .
Douglass to tell people about his life when he was a slave. After 2 years of living in the.
British Isles, some of his friends bought his legal freedom for 150 ponds and he came back.
to the United States. During the Civil War Douglass fought for black people to be able to .
fight for the Union. Before he died in 1895, he stayed an active part of the United States.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel that is.
