The abolitionists effectively spread their message of freedom through newspapers like William Lloyd Garrison's “The Liberator” and by organizing a cadre of anti slavery lecturers, many of whom were formerly enslaved like Frederick Douglass, who traveled throughout the country, often at great personal risk, to highlight.
Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to grow the "three sisters": corn, beans, and squash. Although the Pilgrims had never eaten these foods before, it was what grew well in the rocky soil of their new homeland.