Abolition The AntiSlavery Movement

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Do Now

• What are some creative ways an abolitionist group
  could advance its cause?

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Objective

• LIST the ABOLITIONISTS and UNDERSTAND the
  different tactics used by ABOLITIONISTS to
  achieve their goals.

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David Walker

• Used close salesmen. Stuck abolitionist
  literature in the pockets

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Other Creative Methods of Denouncing Slavery

• 1.) Hand out pins
• 2.) Write songs
• 3.) Go South and secretly lead slaves to freedom

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AbolitionThe Anti-Slavery Movement
This was the key image in the abolitionist
movement. It was printed and engraved on pins
in the 1830s. What does the artist want his
audience to feel?
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Abolition Began After the American Revolution

• Emancipation freeing slaves
• 1780 Penn. gradual emancipation law
• Other northern states follow
• NJ is last northern state to demand gradual
  emancipation (1804).
• All slavery ended in North by 1830
• WRITE IN NOTES ? Most Northerners felt slavery
  was wrong, but DID NOT want it to end

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Southern Reaction to Abolition

• Banned abolitionist writings
• Forbid slaves from learning to read

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American Colonization Society

• Wanted to free slaves send them to West Africa
• 1822 Foundation on Liberia West Africa for
  this purpose.
• Reflects widespread racism
• Blacks reject.

Capital Monrovia named for President Monroe
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William Lloyd Garrison

• Radical abolitionist immediate end to slavery
• 1830s founded
• The Liberator
• American Anti-Slavery Society

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Free African-Americans

• Founded over 50 anti-slavery societies
• Supported Garrison

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Frederick Douglass

• 1840s Broke from Garrison
• Blacks treated like second-class by white
  abolitionists
• Founded news paper North Star

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The Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman
• Conductor of the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Wrote novel Uncle Toms Cabin (1851)
• Made Northerners realize the horrors of slavery

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The Effect of Abolition

• Abolition increased hostility between North and
  South. It was a cause of the Civil War.

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Sojourner Truth

• Freed slave
• Heard God tell her to sojourn through the land,
  preaching religion, abolition, and female
  equality.

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A Practicum Response

• You will have an image or quote and NO
  QUESTIONS!
• You write (in good, complete sentences) what you
  can about the subject and history.
• BIG OPPORTUNITY for extra credit!

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Three Steps to a GreatPracticum Response

• Step 1 INDENTIFY
• What are we looking at?
• Who produced it?
• What does it say?
• What was its function?

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Three Steps to a GreatPracticum Response

• Step 2 CONTEXT
• When?
• Where?
• What was going on when it was made?
• What happened after it was made?

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Three Steps to a GreatPracticum Response

• Step 3 SIGNIFICANCE
• Why is this important?
• What more can it tell us about history?
• How does it reflect its time period?
• How did it change history?
• Does it still have an effect on the present?
• What do people today think of it?

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A Great Response!

• This is an abolitionist button. It was made by
  someone who wanted slavery to end. During the
  1830s, abolition gained a lot of strength, due
  partly to the encouragement of Evangelical
  Preachers of the Second Great Awakening. The Am
  I Not a Woman and a Sister image was a key
  propaganda tool in making white people realize
  that slaves were people with human

rights. The image made white people feel like
they had power to show mercy. Abolitionists
increased North-South hostility and pushed the
country towards civil war.
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Three Steps to a GreatPracticum Response

• Step 1 INDENTIFY
• What are we looking at?
• Who produced it?
• What does it say?
• What was its function?

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Three Steps to a GreatPracticum Response

• Step 2 CONTEXT
• When?
• Where?
• What was going on when it was made?
• What happened after it was made?

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Three Steps to a GreatPracticum Response

• Step 3 SIGNIFICANCE
• Why is this important?
• What more can it tell us about history?
• How does it reflect its time period?
• How did it change history?
• Does it still have an effect on the present?
• What do people today think of it?

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A Great Response

• This is Frederick Douglasss paper The North
  Star. He began this paper after breaking with
  William Lloyd Garrison. He felt that Garrisons
  organization, The American Anti-Slavery Society,
  treated blacks as second class citizens. The
  North Star was a radical abolitionist paper. It
  wanted an immediate end to slavery. It was
  published in the North, since anti-slavery
  writing was forbidden in the South. Writing
  newspapers was one of many ways that
  abolitionists tried to advance the cause of
  emancipation.