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Learn about the passionate fight against slavery led by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Discover the historical background, key events, and influential figures in the movement to end slavery in the United States.
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Wm. Lloyd Garrison fought strongly for the right of African Americans to be free. On one occasion Garrison was present when Fredrick Douglass spoke to a white audience about life as a slave. Douglass electrified his audience with a powerful speech. Suddenly Garrison jumped to his feet,” is this a man,” he demanded of the audience, “or a thing?” Garrison shared Douglass’s outrage that people could be bought as objects.
Early Efforts to end Slavery • Early efforts to reform was not limited to education and the arts. • People like Wm Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglas led the way for the ending of Slavery. • Abolitionists- People who worked for the ending of slavery
Early Efforts to end Slavery • Going back before the Revolutionary War, people tried to end slavery. • This was a major constitutional issue, that allowed each state to decide if they were going to be a slave state or a free state.
Early Efforts to end Slavery • By the early 1800’s Northern states had ended slavery, but it continued in the South.
Early Efforts to end Slavery • Religious reform in the early and mid 1800’s gave life to the anti-slavery movement, particularly from the Quakers.
American Colonization Society • The American Colonization Society (ACS) worked to free enslaved workers gradually by buying them from slaveholders. • It was formed in 1816 by white Virginians who work to send them abroad to start new lives.
American Colonization Society • The ACS Raised money from private donors, Congress, & some state legislatures. • In 1822 the first African American colony was created by land purchased in West Africa called Liberia. P.4
American Colonization Society • In 1847 Liberia became an independent country. • Approximately 12,000 to 20,000 settled this new country between 1822-1865. • The ACS could only settle a few families at a time.
Change in the Abolition Movement • In 1829 Wm Lloyd Garrison left MA to work for country’s leading antislavery Newspaper. • Impatient with this paper he found his own newspaper The Liberator.
Change in the Abolition Movement • Garrison was the first white abolitionist to call for “the immediate and complete emancipation” of enslaved people. • Garrison attracted enough followers to start The New England Antislavery Society in 1832.
Change in the Abolition Movement • By 1838 Garrison’s New England Antislavery Society had over 1,000 chapters.
The Grimke’ Sisters • The first women to speak out publically were Sarah & Angelina Grimke’. • The Grimke’s came from a plantation family in South Carolina.
The Grimke’ Sisters • The Grimke’ sisters persuaded their mother to give them their share of the family inheritance in slaves upon which they were freed immediately.
The Grimke’ Sisters • Angelina Grimke’ and her husband abolitionist Theodore Weld wrote “American Slavery As It Is” in 1839. • It was a collection of first hand accounts of life in slavery.
