By Graham RossSubject: The Abolition of Slavery

Wrote a weekly newspaper The Liberator, that promoted the anti-slavery movement.

"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." - first issue of the Liberator

When he was 25, he joined the Abolitionist movement by joining the American Colonization Society, a group that believed that African-American slaves should move to a territory on the West coast of Africa.

In 1830, he worked as a co-editor of the Abolitionist paper The Genius of Universal Emancipation.

Spent his life after slavery speaking about it to promote abolitionism and racial equality.

When he was a child, he was dehumanized as a slave would be, even though he wasn’t one.

After moving to Boston and back, he was enslaved brutally, yet he planned to escape by the end of 1836, but didn’t until 1838.

He moved to New York in 1838 to educate himself about the world and teach people about the hardships of slavery.

He subscribed and agreed to Garrison’s Liberator. He wrote a autobiography, and later he would go

on a speaking tour about it, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself.

She was one of the main conductors of the Underground Railroad

She got over 300 slaves to freedom and never lost one

She was born a slave in Maryland in 1820. She worked as a house servant when she was about five and a field worker when she was about thirteen

After forming a family with her husband John Tubman, she ran away from her enslaver.

She found safe places and special techniques that helped her free all of the slaves that she did.

The people that were slaves have disliked the injustice of slavery since 1619 when the first slaves arrived in America.

In 1787 slavery was made illegal In 1808 the slave trade was made illegal In 1861 the Civil War begins In 1863 President Lincoln issues the Proclamation Emancipation,

saying that all slaves are free. In 1865 Lincoln was assassinated, the Civil War ended, and the

Thirteenth Amendment was issued, stating that slavery is illegal in America

Georgia complained about the oppressive high tariffs before the war

There were big opinion differences between the North and the South of the Constitution.

The Nullification Crisis was viewed very North-centered by the South

Politics were viewed differently in the North and the South A economic downpour hit the North, dividing the nation into the

wealthy, agricultural South and the poor, industrial North

It effected: Clubs Groups Newspapers Religion Books People’s, light and dark skinned, thoughts

and free time Speeches

The Quakers declared slavery un-Christian. Many cultural and political powers spoke against slavery

including: William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, and John Greenleaf Whitter.

They provided safe places in the underground railroad Created by white people, the American Anti-Slavery Society

spoke for abolitionism

There are no other reasons to free the slaves other than they are being abused and dehumanized because of the unjust slave owners.

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