• Essential Question:–How did the issue of slavery contribute to

sectionalism in the late antebellum era?

• CPUSH Agenda for Unit 5.3: –Clicker Questions–“Sectionalism and Slavery” activity –Today’s HW: 10.1–Unit 5 Test: Wednesday, October 17–In-Class Essay: Thursday, October 18

By 1840, abolitionism was the most important of the antebellum social reforms

Arguments over slavery increased sectional tensions between North and South

Working in groups, read information about six

important people who took a stand for or against

slavery

What were the arguments for and against slavery? In your notes, write their specific views on slavery

and the actions they took to end or defend slavery

William Lloyd Garrison■Most famous abolitionist■Published The Liberator;

formed American Anti-Slavery Society

■ Immediate end to slavery

■Burned Constitution; Argued for Northern secession

Frederick Douglass

■Abolitionist, former slave■ “Slavery is wicked, a sin,

violates liberty”■Helped runaway slaves■Published North Star■Advised President

Lincoln

Grimke Sisters■ Southern women who

moved North to become abolitionists

■ Slavery is morally wrong

■ First women to speak to audiences with men (unladylike)

■ Threatened with jail if ever returned to South

Hinton Helper

■White southerner who opposed slavery

■Wrote Impending Crisis■ Slavery is bad because it

kept most whites poor & hurt the South

■Racist against blacks; argued for segregation

John C. Calhoun■ Supporter of slavery;

“positive good” theory■ States, not the

national government, should decide if slavery should exist

■ Southern “way of life”■ States should defy

anti-slavery laws

George Fitzhugh

■ Southern aristocrat who supported slavery

■ Slaves are “inferior” ■ Slavery is better than

Northern/British cruelty towards factory workers

■ Slavers were “better off” in America than Africa

Examine each of the following historical quotations and determine which of the six people most likely said it

“Who said it?” Quotes

#1 On this subject [of slavery], I do not wish to think,

or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm;

tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge

me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse

-- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.William Lloyd Garrison

#2 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other

days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your

celebration is a sham; There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Frederick Douglass

#3 The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world.

The children and the aged and infirm work not at all, and yet have all the comforts and necessaries of life provided for them. They enjoy liberty, because they

are oppressed neither by care nor labor. The women do little hard work, and are protected from the despotism of their husbands by their masters. The negro men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not

more than nine hours a day.George Fitzhugh

For each of the six events highlighted on the timeline, read the background information and create a specific conversation between the two people from their perspective on the issue of slavery

“Growth of Abolition” Conversations