Abolitionist MovementAbolitionist Movement1st movements: Mennonites 1688

Philadelphia 1775 – Anti-Slavery Debate1816 American Colonization Society created (gradual, voluntary emancipation)

British Colonization Society symbol

Americans Speak-Out on ”Slavery”• LIBERIA (West Africa) founded with

U.S. $$$ in 1821 by American Anti-Slavery Groups

• William Lloyd Garrison “Liberator” July 4, 1829 speech ”American Revolution is not yet over”

• calls for ABOLITION (END slavery)

William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879)

William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879)

• Slavery & Free Masonryundermined “Republican Values.”

• Immediate Emancipation with NO compensation.

• Slavery was a moral issue, not an economic issue.

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The LiberatorThe Liberator

Premiere issue January 1, 1831

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Propaganda Showing IMMORALITY of Slavery

( Tree of Slavery)

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

1845 The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass1847 “The North Star”

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1850 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth R2-10

Women within the Movement

opposition to women participating in politics - Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman(1820-1913)Harriet Tubman(1820-1913)• Helped over 300

slaves to freedom.

• $40,000 bounty on her head (dead/alive)

• Served as a Union spy during the Civil War.

“Moses”

Leading Escaping Slaves Along the Underground

Railroad

Leading Escaping Slaves Along the Underground

Railroad

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad “Conductor” ==== leader of the

escape

“Passengers” ==== escaping slaves

“Tracks” ==== routes

“Trains” ==== farm wagons transporting the escaping slaves

“Depots” ==== safe houses to rest/sleep

• Nat Turner’s Rebellion• Nat Turner took his Bible seriously and often preached to

the other slaves who called him ‘The Prophet’. As time went by Nat became more and more convinced that God had chosen him for “some great purpose”. In May 1828 while he was working in his master’s fields he had another powerful vision in which he believed God appeared to him and told him “…Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent…”. Not certain exactly what he was supposed to do, Nat waited for another sign from God.

• The sign finally came on February 12, 1831 when Nat was working in the fields. Nat looked towards the sun and saw it being blocked out by the moon in a solar eclipse. Nat decided this was the sign he had been waiting for and he began recruiting fellow slaves and made preparations for his rebellion against the slave owners of Virginia.

– 80 followers / killed 60 before captured• Slave Codes tighten control in South– FEAR of spreading ideas leading to revolts– Illegal to teach slaves / the Bible• Spreads “dangerous ideas” (salvation/

CREATING AMERICAN CREATING AMERICAN CULTURECULTURECulturalNationalism

– Literature / Art– Values / Virtues

Religious ReformsWomen’s ReformsSlavery & AbolitionEconomics &

Immigration

The AMERICAN The AMERICAN DREAM - UnfoldsDREAM - Unfolds

• YOU create it – invent it – do it – build it explore it – work for it

• YOU reap the rewards of your creation• Encourages “INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE”

– Free Market Capitalism - Laissez-Faire Economics

– Free Enterprise

(Immigration Explosion)(Immigration Explosion) • Ireland (English control)

-potatoes (poor)( Irish Potato Famine )( Irish Potato Famine )

massive Irish immigration(DiscriminationDiscrimination - Irish, Germans - Irish, Germans)

- Competition for housing, jobs etc..

(Anti-Immigration Feelings GROW)(Anti-Immigration Feelings GROW)• NATIVIST Movement (Native Born)

– Fear Rising Immigration would:•TAKE AWAY JOBS•CHANGE SOCIETY (Temperance)

– Know Nothing Society Party•Stricter Citizenship Laws•Local / State Regulations Increase

concerning state/local government jobs