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U.S. History
Chapter 15: New Movements in America
Section 4: The Movement to End Slavery
Abolition
•Abolition—an immediate end to slavery
•Emancipation—freedom from slavery
•Abolitionists vocal minority
Abolition
•Disagreements among abolitionists
•Colonization
Abolition
American Colonization Society—society the organized in 1817 that established the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a home for free African Americans
Spreading the Abolitionist Message
•The Liberator--antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
Spreading the Abolitionist Message
• William Lloyd Garrison: controversial & outspoken leader of the antislavery movement; publisher of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Spreading the Abolitionist Message
• American Anti-Slavery Society—group founded by Garrison that wanted immediate emancipation & racial equality for African Americans
1837 broadside published by the American Anti-Slavery Society
Spreading the Abolitionist Message
Angelina & Sarah Grimke: two white southern women who became well-known
anti-slavery activists in the 1830s
Angelina Grimke Sarah Grimke
African Americans Fight against Slavery
• Frederick Douglass: ex-slave who published The North Star and became one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s
Frederick Douglass
African Americans Fight against Slavery
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Jacobs
• William Wells Brown
Sojourner Truth
The Underground Railroad
•Underground Railroad—network of people who helped fugitive slaves
The Underground Railroad
• “Railroad”
• “Stations”
• “Conductors”
• Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman
Opposition to Abolition
•Many whites did not believe in equal treatment
•Take jobs from white workers
•Violence against abolitionists
Opposition to Abolition
•Congressional Gag Rule (1836-44)
•Vital to Southern economy
•Slavery “protected” African Americans