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OBJECTIVE
•Students will be able to examine the efforts of a
few abolitionist in order to evaluate their
effectiveness in abolishing slavery.
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EFFORTS OF ABOLITIONISTS
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS: FEBRUARY 17, 1818 – FEBRUARY 20, 1895)
•Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. Douglass eventually escaped slavery and worked with William Lloyd Garrison.
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•He had learned to read and write while in captivity so he was able to use those skills to help show how slavery was not like the southerners made it sound.
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•He also worked with the Anti-Slavery Society. Frederick Douglass wrote for the Liberator. He wrote articles and made speeches against slavery.
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•He also published and autobiography, The Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The autobiography was published in 1845.
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He moved to Rochester, New York, and began publishing a newspaper, the North
Star.
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•Douglass continued to fight for the freedom of slaves. Frederick Douglass died in 1882 after a long illness. His voice continued to be heard long after his death.
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One of the most important Black Americans in the history of the country was Frederick
Douglass.
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a woman who was born in Connecticut and grew up in a
large religious family.
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In Cincinnati she met fugitive slaves and she learned about the horrors of slavery in the south.
She wanted to prove that slavery was wrong.
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To prove that slavery was wrong, she published a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book was
about an old slave named Tom.
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In the book Tom was separated from his wife and bought and sold three times, his last owner beat him to death. The book was published in 1852.
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This book had a very high influence toward antislavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin made southerners
very mad but the northerners liked the book. Over 2 million copies were sold in just ten years.
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THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
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The American Anti-slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and his followers in 1833. Garrison not only believed in equality for African Americans but also for equality of women.
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•Garrison and the American Anti-slavery Society were writing pamphlets. They also sent petitions to congress asking them to end government support of slavery.
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•One of the main goals of the American Anti-slavery Society was to spread anti-slavery written works throughout the north and Midwest.
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They even published an anti-slavery newspaper called “The Liberator.”
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The American Anti-slavery Society not only played a huge roll in the emancipation of
slaves but gaining rights for them to.
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D E C E M B E R 1 3 , 1 8 0 5 - M AY 2 4 , 1 8 7 9
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
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When William was 25 he joined the Abolition movement, and for a short time he became involves in the American Colonization Society.
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• This group believed that free blacks should immigrate to an area on the west coast of Africa. But then around 1829-1830 William rejected colonization, apologizing for his error.
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THEN IN 1831, WILLIAM RETURNED TO NEW ENGLAND AND CREATED A WEEKLY ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPER
CALLED "THE LIBERATOR".
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HE PUBLISHED WEEKLY ISSUES IN BOSTON FOR 35 YEARS. HE HAD ABOUT 3,000 SUBSCRIBERS MOST
OF WHOM WERE AFRICAN AMERICANS.
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Garrison was facing fierce resistance for his belief about the slaves. Garrison believed that all slaves
should be emancipated as quickly as possible.
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• The legislature from South Carolina offered a reward of $1,500(about $25,000 today) to those who identified the distributors of the paper. The Liberator ran from January 1st 1831 to January 1st 1866.
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