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Abolition Movement Ideas and Leaders

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Abolition Movement

Ideas and Leaders

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The daily life of slaves.• Living Conditions – large families

in one-room cabins; unbalanced diets, no running water or poor sanitation

• Some slaves became artisans

• Allowed to marry and have children

• Many subjected to Cruel Punishments and denied basic human rights

• Could be sold and separated from family at anytime.

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion• August 1831 in Southampton

County, Virginia

• Nat Turner, a black religious leader led 70-75 slaves on attack

• They killed 60 whites, including men, women, and children

• Spread fear among slave owners– States passed stricter laws

controlling activities of free and enslaved blacks

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ABOLITIONwhen a law or a system is officially ended

• Principles behind Abolition MovementoPolitical – “All men are created equal”oReligious – equal in the eyes of God

• Abolitionists wanted the immediate, emancipation of all slaves.

• Involved men and women

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Who Were the Abolitionists?

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Frederick Douglas• Escaped from slavery at age

20• Wrote 3 autobiographies• Published anti-slavery

newspaper, The North Star

• Toured the North giving speeches and appearing at public anti-slavery events.

• Supported Women’s Rights Movement

Frederick Douglass

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William Lloyd Garrison

• From Boston• Published The Liberator,

1831• Organized New England

Anti-Slavery Society, 1832• Went to Europe to gain

support for abolition• Saw slavery as morally

wrong

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Harriet Beecher Stowe• Born into a religious family

of Abolitionists

• Wrote the book, Uncle Tom’s

Cabin in 1853 after meeting runaway slaves and hearing their experiences

• Book was a best seller that made many Americans aware of the evils of slavery

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John Quincy Adams• In 1836, Congress passes the

GAG RULE – preventing any bills

restricting or ending slavery

• Q. Adams fought against the

gag rule calling it

unconstitutional.

• The gag rule was finally

suspended in 1844

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Harriet Tubman• Most famous “Conductor” of the

Underground Railroad

• After escaping herself, she made 19

separate trips back to the South and

helped about 300 slaves escape to

freedom

– She was called “Mama Moses”

• She served as a spy for the Union

during the Civil War

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Underground Railroad• Secret network of abolitionists who worked

together to help runaway slaves reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• Runaways would travel 10-20 miles before they reached the next “station” which would be houses, barns, or cellars of white or free black people who chose to help them escape.

• They would be helped along the routes by people like Harriet Tubman, called “conductors”

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