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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass. Key historical moments. The Abolition movement. Antislavery activity in the US began in colonial times 1680s: Quakers in Pennsylvania 1700s: Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry (American Revolutionary movement) 1816: American Colonization Society

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Frederick Douglass

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  1. Frederick Douglass Key historical moments

  2. The Abolition movement • Antislavery activity in the US began in colonial times • 1680s: Quakers in Pennsylvania • 1700s: Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry (American Revolutionary movement) • 1816: American Colonization Society • Send freed slaves to Liberia • Elihu Embree: The Emancipator • William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator

  3. The Emancipator

  4. The Liberator

  5. Lucretia Mott Grimke sisters

  6. Wealthy African-American abolitionists James Forten Robert Purvis

  7. Free Soil Party campaign slogan: “We inscribe on our banner, ‘Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Men,’ and under it we will fight on and fight ever, until triumphant victory shall rewards our exertions”

  8. The Abolition movement • 1840: The Liberty Party • 1848: Free Soil Party • The Underground Railroad; read an interesting essay on the Quaker and Slavery site

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