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Explore how the South became reliant on slave labor due to its lack of economic diversification, demand for cotton, and constitutional allowances. Uncover the arguments used to justify slavery and the methods employed by abolitionists like Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass to end it. Understand the role of the Northwest Ordinance in limiting slavery and how states in the North gradually ended the institution.
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South did not diversify its’ economy, the land was suited for farming crops that required a lot of labor, there was a huge demand for cotton, the north needed the cotton in its’ textile mills, the Constitution allowed slavery.
States right, right to property, economic necessity, slavery existed even in ancient times
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Grimike sisters, John Brown
What method was used by Nat Turner & J. Brown to try to end slavery ?
What methods were used by William Lloyd Garrison to end slavery?
Published the newspaper “The Liberator”, burned a copy of Constitution.
Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, and promoted the 13th amendment; moved the justification of the Civil War from preserving the Union to fighting for the just cause of freedom for all
Wrote, spoke, published the newspaper “The North Star”, gave $ from lectures, pressured Lincoln to allow African Americans to enlist as soldiers
Stated no slavery allowed in the "old northwest ” - meant that new states admitted to the U.S. in the north would not be allowed to have slaves
Gradual manumission; compensation and written into their state constitutions