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Fight Against slavery

Fight Against slavery. Chapter 12 section 2. Why it Matters. Many people had opposed slavery since colonial times They believed it is in-moral and against their religious belief The reforming spirit spurred a strong movement to abolish slavery in America. Roots of the Antislavery Movement.

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Fight Against slavery

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  1. Fight Against slavery Chapter 12 section 2

  2. Why it Matters • Many people had opposed slavery since colonial times • They believed it is in-moral and against their religious belief • The reforming spirit spurred a strong movement to abolish slavery in America

  3. Roots of the Antislavery Movement • “that all men are created equal” • Slavery ends in the North: a. 178o Pennsylvania b. By 1804 every northern state pledged to end slavery c. Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery

  4. The Colonization Movement (1817) • This society purpose was to free slaves and transport them to Liberia • Unsuccessful because many freed slaves did not want to go to a strange country. Only about 1400 migrated to Liberia

  5. Growing Opposition to Slavery • Abolitionists is a person to abolish or to end slavery • Charles Finney, an abolitionist preached bout the evil’s of slavery

  6. Lloyd Garrison • Quaker • Strongly opposed slavery • Considered a radical because he wanted not a gradual end of slavery but to end immediately • He favored full rights to be given to the slaves • 1831 started an abolitionist newspaper: Liberator • Co-founder of the New England Anti-Slavery Society

  7. Lloyd Garrison

  8. Sarah and Angelina Grimke • Strong Abolitionist • Southern Born to a family that owned slaves

  9. African American Abolitionist • David Walker in 1829 published his Appeal: to the Coloured Citizens of the World • He encouraged enslaved people to rebel if necessary to gain their freedom

  10. Fredrick Douglass • Most powerful speaker for abolitionism • Born into slavery • Escaped to freedom • Taught himself to read and write • Published Aolititonist newspaper North Star • Douglass said to a crowd: “I appear this evening as a thief and a robber. I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master, and ran off with them.”

  11. John Quincy Adams • Proposed an amendment in 1839 to ban any new state coming into the Union. It did not pass • Defended captive Africans aboard a slave ship that rebelled and killed ship captain and members on the Armistad. (slave trade among nations were abolished in 1807. • Helped captives gain their freedom in America • Why did Adams have a lot of people resent what he did?

  12. Underground Railroad • Organized way to help slaves escape • Series of paths where Blacks and Whites helped slaves reach freedom • Illegal of course. Why? • Over 50,000

  13. Harriet Tubman • Called “Moses” • Led more than 300 slaves to freedom • Master of disguise • She stated to Douglass “I never lost a single passenger”. • Page 425

  14. Opposing Abolition • Many Northerner profited from slavery and opposed abolition of slavery • Many feared that freedmen would move North and take jobs • Many Southerners voiced their opinion of abolition with violence • Congress tried to have a “gag order” over issue of slavery

  15. “Elephant in the living room”

  16. “Elephant in the living room”

  17. Joh Quincy

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