abolition

Abolition• 1820’s – Recolonization – good idea?

over 100 antislavery societies

Most Northern states had abolished slavery

Social Uplift

Prince Hall Richard Allen James Forten

David Walker

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World• Advised blacks to fight for their freedom

William Lloyd Garrison

• 1831 – The Liberator – Newspaper (MA)

immediate emancipation

no $$ for slave owners

I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I

will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD."

Arthur & Lewis Tappan

• American Anti-Slavery Society• Left in 1840 (did not want to expand to women’s rights)

Nat Turner

• 1831 – Led slave revolt

• Eclipse?• 60 whites

killed• 200 blacks

killed• Good or

bad? Perspe

ctive?

Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society

• Women were forced to start their own abolitionist groups

• Lucretia Mott

Theodore Weld

Abolition

• Angelina GrimkeAn Appeal to the Christian

Women of the South

1836

Education

• Sarah Grimke

1838 – Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women

Frederick Douglass

• Run away slave – became famous abolitionist – worked with Garrison

• North Star - Newspaper

      “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who

profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who

want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain

without thunder and lightning.”

Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

Elijah P. Lovejoy

• 1840

• Abby Kelley Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

Women in Abolition