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Chapter 16 – Team Teach Per Rubric
Alex Christy and Megan McGill
Radical AbolitionismWilliam Lloyd Garrison:• Publisher of pro-abolition newspaper, The Liberator,
which incited 30 years of verbal conflict between North and South
• Started American Anti-Slavery Society• Burned a copy of the Constitution and was for
Northern secession • Was believed to be more self-righteous than
humanitarian• What year did the American Anti-Slavery Society
begin and what was its main goal?
Radical Abolitionism
Abolitionists of the time:• Wendell Phillips: member of American Anti-
Slavery Society and Boston aristocrat who fiercely boycotted slave produced goods such as cane sugar and cotton cloth
• David Walker: wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World which called for a violent end to the racial injustices of the time
Radical Abolitionism
• Sojourner Truth: free slave woman who advocated for abolition and women’s rights
• Martin Delany: supporter of sending blacks to re-colonize in Africa
• Frederick Douglass: lectured for abolition, wrote autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass about his struggle for education and escape to the North, and politically looked to end slavery
Thinking Globally- The Struggle to Abolish Slavery
• In 1794, the French slaves in Haiti inspired by feelings from the French Revolution were the first to free themselves in the Americas.
• London hosted the World’s Anti-slavery Convention of 1840
• William Wilberforce got Parliament to outlaw the slave trade in 1807 and to abolish it in the British Empire by 1833.
• What social movement did the World’s Anti-slavery Convention of 1840 spark interest in?
Thinking Globally- The Struggle to Abolish Slavery
• In France, it took 2 revolutions to abolish slavery• In Great Britain, it was achieved by a large social
movement and Parliamentary legislation• In the United States, a similarly large social
movement that notably involved women and freed slaves, but also caused a Civil War
• In the rest of the Americas, achieved gradually after independence from Spain
Table 16.1 • Of the countries listed, America was the 11th to abolish slavery in
1865• America, like all but 3 listed in the table, got rid of slavery
gradually until the final blow of the Civil War sparked the passing of the 13th amendment.
• In many cases, slave trade was terminated first and then the government stepped in and abolished it altogether years later
• British Naval power helped to weaken the slave trade once Britain outlawed it in 1807
• The eastern European, notably Russian, serfdom was a slavery-like institution that was abolished by the 1860s
• What was the first country listed and the last country listed to abolish slavery?