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