Transcript Abolition

Abolitionist
Movement
Calls for Ending
Slavery
Abolitionist – wanted to end
slavery
 both blacks & whites
worked in Abolition
Movement
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William Lloyd Garrison –
“Liberator” (white)
Frederick Douglass – “North
Star” (black)
Other Abolitionists
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John Brown
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Radical!
“Arm slaves in Rebellion”
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
The Underground
Railroad
a series of escape routes
running from South to
North
 traveled by night;
hid/rested in stations
 conductors – people who led
runaways to freedom
 Harriet Tubman
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdno2YLm
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SUMMARY
QUIZ TIME
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1. What does abolitionists mean (in this
context)?
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2. Which religious sect were predominately
abolitionists even from the start of
America?
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Puritans
Catholics
Quakers
Baptists
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3. Name the abolitionist who wrote The
North Star.
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4. Name the abolitionist who wrote The
Liberator.
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5. Name the abolitionist who was called
Moses because she “took her people to the
promised land.”