In the early 1800s, the National Abolitionist movement in American began to grow.  With the creation of the American Anti-Slavery society in December 1833 and with the help of many abolitionist leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison, creator of abolitionist paper the Liberator, David Walker, a black abolitionist who supported Garrison financially, Lewis Tappan, a very popular and influential abolitionist leader in New York, Elijah Lovejoy, a very prominent abolitionist editor, Harriet Tubman, who organized the Underground Railroad, and Frederick Douglas, writer of the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper, the Abolitionist Movement started to receive national notoriety.

In the new wing, the Abolitionists movement room will incorporate a mixture of art, literature, speeches, portraits and artifacts from the Abolitionist Movement.  Copies of the North Star and the Liberator along with copies of Uncle Tom’s Cabin will be on display.  Paintings of William Lloyd Garrison, Lewis Tappan, Elijah Lovejoy, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and David Walker will be on display.    The Abolitionist Movement room will truly capture the strong feelings of these leaders and that they believed strongly in what they were doing and would never back down.