The Movement to End Slavery 13.4

Abolition

Movement to end slavery on moral grounds Some called for immediate emancipation (freedom), others for gradual.

Abolitionists had different views

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Some supported freedom, but not equality for Blacks

By 1833 & 1848, Both Britain & France had outlawed Slavery

Colonization Movement

Short lived movement to send free-blacks to Africa Many blacks rejected it, feeling that they should have a share in America’s wealth.

Northern Abolitionists

Anti-Slavery speeches, newspapers, & literature William Lloyd Garrison : founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society,

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Published the

Liberator

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Allowed Women a major role = caused a split

Abby Kelley Foster

Grimk é Sisters

2 White southern abolitionists who wrote famous essays against slavery

African American Voices

Most powerful Anti-Slavery activists Many former slaves wrote narratives & went on speaking tours.

Frederick Douglass

Most famous Black Abolitionist Wrote 4 autobiographies, became world renown

The North Star

The Underground Railroad Network of individuals & safe-houses that helped runaway slaves escape to free Canada.

Harriet Tubman :most famous “conductor,” helped up to 300 slaves escape

Slavery had many Supporters Slaves were seen as property, not people The Bible & ancient Greece/Rome has many examples of slavery Many northerners supported it for racist & economic reasons

Mobs often attacked abolitionists Southern writer George Fitzhugh

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slavery was necessary for the black race

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they lived better than northern wage earners