Transcript The Abolition Movement

By: Grant Brown, Ron Powell
 The American Colonization Society was established
with a goal of abolishing slavery.
 Return freed slaves to Africa
 Abolition: the movement of ridding slavery.
 Nat Turner’s rebellion was an
event in August, 1831 where
Turner gathered about 50
other slaves and attacked 4
plantations, killing over 60
whites, and eventually
captured and killed Turner
and a few of his followers.
 South: Made whites fear that
their slaves would turn on
them
 North: Not as worried but
still concerned
 He was a pacifist who peacefully argued the issue of
slavery through his newspapers, The Liberator
 Worked for the “immediate emancipation of slaves!”
 Frederick Douglas first escaped slavery in
1838 at the age of 22. He gave a speech on
slavery in Massachusetts in 1841. From there
he became the greatest of the black
abolitionists. In 1845, he wrote an
autobiography called The Life of Frederick
Douglass. He was worked with Garrison on
The Liberator, but then started his own
newspaper, The North Star
 Underground Railroad: System of escape routes slaves
used to get freedom in the North.
 Harriet Tubman was a slave, and when her owner
died, she ran away to Philadelphia, where she was
free. Even though she was free, she went back and
fourth from the north to the south 19 times, risking
her life and freedom, to help slaves get to freedom. At
the end of her trips, she saved an overall number of
300 slaves, including her parents.
However, the
underground
railroad was not
the primary
means for slaves
to escape slavery.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe is the author of the novel Uncle
Toms Cabin.
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin was criticized in the south because
it was supporting anti-slavery.
 The Fugitive Slave Acts was the act where the whites in the
north sent runaway slaves back to the south.
 The whites from the south supported these acts because the
south were getting there workers back, many in the North
were against this. Slaves disagreed with this, because they
wanted freedom.
 This act actually strengthened the abolitionist resolve in the
North.
 October 1859: John Brown led 18
men into sieze weapons and
ammunition from the federal
arsenal in Harpers Ferry VA.
 He hoped to free slaves and arm
them.
 He was eventually captured
charged for treason where he was
declared guilty and hung shortly
after.
 southerners were outraged, while
northerners sympathized.
 The American Pageant (textbook)
 The Americans ( Reconstruction to the 21st Century)
(textbook)
 http://ushistory.org
 http://lauragrady.com
 http://biography.com
 http://historymatters.edu