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Helen-Marie Larson and David Kim Period 5 US History CP 1

Abolition: The Fight Against Slavery. Helen-Marie Larson and David Kim Period 5 US History CP 1. Background Information.

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Helen-Marie Larson and David Kim Period 5 US History CP 1

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  1. Abolition: The Fight Against Slavery Helen-Marie Larson and David Kim Period 5 US History CP 1

  2. Background Information In 1834, In Britain, the Abolition Act abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. The Bill freed all of the slaves in all of the British colonies, and they gave all the slave owners $100 million for their losses.

  3. Our organization is abolition • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman who used to be a slave herself, was leading slaves to freedom after escaping slavery, and she was repeatedly making trips to Dixie to help other slaves. While she was helping 300 slaves, she also warned them that she would have to shoot them if they turned back, because what she was doing was endangering everyone and herself.

  4. Harriet Tubman • Harriet Tubman was a former slave who became an abolitionist. After she escaped from her owner in Maryland, Tubman went to Pennsylvania. She decided to help other slaves get their freedom, too. Tubman joined the Underground Railroad and made nearly 20 trips to the South. She helped over 300 slaves travel north to freedom.

  5. Frederick Douglass • Frederick Douglass was another slave who ran away to freedom in the North. He went to Massachusetts and gave speeches to abolitionist groups. He was a gifted speaker, and he published a newspaper article called The North Star. Many people were so moved by the speeches and writings of Douglass that they decided to join the fight against slavery.

  6. Harriet Beecher Stowe • Another important person who fought to end slavery was Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was a writer from the North and had not seen many slaves. Still, she felt that slavery was wrong. Stowe decided to use her writing talent to do something about it. She wrote a novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which described the lives of a family of slaves. The book sold 300,000 copies in the first year. After reading Stowe’s book, people in the North felt even more against slavery. Although the novel was fiction, many more people became abolitionists because of it.

  7. Help End Slavery! • The abolitionists have a powerful message. More and more people have begun to believe that slavery is wrong. However, abolitionists will not be happy until slavery is against the law.

  8. How can we support • People have been starting abolitionist groups and the Underground railroad. The Underground Railroad is not really a railroad. It’s a secret group of people who help slaves escape to freedom. People who guide slaves are called conductors. Conductors help the slaves to get from the South to the Northern states or Canada. Escaped slaves have traveled along routes where there are safe places to hide, called stations. These stations are barns, stables, or houses where escaped slaves can stay on their journey.

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