Chapter 16 – Team Teach Per Rubric

Alex Christy and Megan McGill

Radical AbolitionismWilliam Lloyd Garrison:• Publisher of pro-abolition newspaper, The Liberator,

which incited 30 years of verbal conflict between North and South

• Started American Anti-Slavery Society• Burned a copy of the Constitution and was for

Northern secession • Was believed to be more self-righteous than

humanitarian• What year did the American Anti-Slavery Society

begin and what was its main goal?

Radical Abolitionism

Abolitionists of the time:• Wendell Phillips: member of American Anti-

Slavery Society and Boston aristocrat who fiercely boycotted slave produced goods such as cane sugar and cotton cloth

• David Walker: wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World which called for a violent end to the racial injustices of the time

Radical Abolitionism

• Sojourner Truth: free slave woman who advocated for abolition and women’s rights

• Martin Delany: supporter of sending blacks to re-colonize in Africa

• Frederick Douglass: lectured for abolition, wrote autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass about his struggle for education and escape to the North, and politically looked to end slavery

Thinking Globally- The Struggle to Abolish Slavery

• In 1794, the French slaves in Haiti inspired by feelings from the French Revolution were the first to free themselves in the Americas.

• London hosted the World’s Anti-slavery Convention of 1840

• William Wilberforce got Parliament to outlaw the slave trade in 1807 and to abolish it in the British Empire by 1833.

• What social movement did the World’s Anti-slavery Convention of 1840 spark interest in?

Thinking Globally- The Struggle to Abolish Slavery

• In France, it took 2 revolutions to abolish slavery• In Great Britain, it was achieved by a large social

movement and Parliamentary legislation• In the United States, a similarly large social

movement that notably involved women and freed slaves, but also caused a Civil War

• In the rest of the Americas, achieved gradually after independence from Spain

Table 16.1 • Of the countries listed, America was the 11th to abolish slavery in

1865• America, like all but 3 listed in the table, got rid of slavery

gradually until the final blow of the Civil War sparked the passing of the 13th amendment.

• In many cases, slave trade was terminated first and then the government stepped in and abolished it altogether years later

• British Naval power helped to weaken the slave trade once Britain outlawed it in 1807

• The eastern European, notably Russian, serfdom was a slavery-like institution that was abolished by the 1860s

• What was the first country listed and the last country listed to abolish slavery?