Abolitionism
Jan 05, 2016
Abolitionism
Slave Experience
Physical Conditions brutality, degradation, and
inhumanity whippings, executions, and
rapes were common
Northern States
Benjamin Lundy established several
anti-slavery newspapers
American Colonization Society Return free African
Americans to Africa
Abolition
David Walker
who demanded the immediate end of slavery in the new nation
power within Black unity
Abolition William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator – Abolitionist newspaper African Americans have rights to “life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness” New England Anti-Slavery Society
Abolition Frederick Douglass
Former slave who escaped
Published narrative of his life, which many read and discovered harshness of slavery
Helped abolitionist movement
Fredrick Douglass
“So profoundly ignorant of the nature of slavery are many persons, that they are stubbornly incredulous whenever they read or listen to any recital of the cruelties which are daily inflicted on its victims. They do not deny that the slaves are held as property; but that terrible fact seems to convey to their minds no idea of injustice, exposure to outrage, or savage barbarity.”
Abolition
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad: of people who helped
fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada Made trip 19 times and freed over 300 slaves
Women Reformers Catherine Beecher
Pushed for women’s education
Dorothea Dix created the first
generation of American mental asylums
Women Reformers Lucretia Mott &
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Both were abolitionists and women’s rights activists
Seneca Falls (NY 1848): First women’s rights convention
Women Reformers
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl – Escaped Slave
Sojourner Truth Escaped slave and
women’s rights reformer
Women Reformers
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist
Uncle Tom’s Cabin : Depicted life of slaves