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Fight Against Slavery

Goals: To understand the abolitionist stance on slavery To understand the resistance of abolition To understand the deep divisions in the North and the South. Fight Against Slavery. Garrison Demands Emancipation. William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator , an antislavery newspaper

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Fight Against Slavery

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  1. Goals: To understand the abolitionist stance on slavery To understand the resistance of abolition To understand the deep divisions in the North and the South Fight Against Slavery

  2. Garrison Demands Emancipation • William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper • Used moral suasion in an attempt to persuade people using moral arguments • Garrison wanted immediate emancipation • He began the American Anti-Slavery Society • Insisted that holding slaves was counter to most Americans’ religious ideals

  3. Abolitionists Spread the Word • Working through churches was an effective way to use moral suasion • Many southerners were so moved that they went north to join the antislavery movement • Frederick Douglass was a former slave who spoke to thousands as he denounced slavery

  4. Southerners Cling to Slavery • Slavery was seen as necessary to the Southern economy • Slavery benefitted Northern industries because they depended on Southern cotton • Argued that wage earners had it much worse than slaves • Slaves are provided housing, food, medical care, and security

  5. Southerners Cling to Slavery • Argued that Christianity supported slavery • Slavery was historically inevitable • Southern post offices refused to deliver abolitionist newspapers • Many who didn’t own slaves still embraced it as a way of life • Seen as a freedom that is threatened

  6. Northerners Resist Abolition • In Alton, IL, Elijah Lovejoy’s printing press was thrown in the river (twice!) for printing anti-slavery newspapers • Lovejoy was killed defending his press in 1837 • Workers in cities saw freed slaves as competition • Nobody wanted to deal with the issue at hand • A Gag Rule was established in Congress, preventing them from debating slavery

  7. Slavery Divides a Nation • Abolition movement was small and confined to the North • Abolitionists were vocal and persistent • Slavery widened cultural differences between the North and the South • This divisive issue would prove to be a devastating wedge between the North and the South

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