Crusade%20Against%20Slavery

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Crusade Against Slavery
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• 1st Americans willing to challenge slavery
• Quakers
• Slaves
• Free Blacks

Why did the antislavery movement temporarily die
out after the Revolutionary War?
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Back to Africa - Colonization

• American Colonization Society
• Liberia Monrovia
• Good or bad idea?
• Could Blacks ever be free in America?

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Power of the Pen

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Liberator 1831
• Propagandist
• Militant Language but rejected violence

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Power of the Pen

• Uncle Toms Cabin
• Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852
• Life of a Slave

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Abolitionist Strategies/Arguments

• Bible and Declaration of Independence David
  Walker
• Inflammatory rhetoric and Constitution Garrison
• Slavery was a sin Weld
• Birthplace determines who was an American Child
  
• 1st Martyr Elijah P. Lovejoy
• Look on page 453 Frederick Douglass

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• Powerful images for abolitionists movement
• Look at the following pictures and list the
  powerful images you see on the following pages.
• 440, 442, 445, 446

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• What would be the best strategy to use by
  abolitionists which would bring an end to
  slavery?