Abolitionist Movement

o 18th Century
American Revolution
Quakers
Branch of Christianity that believes that
everyone is equal
North ends slavery
Vermont and many states abolish it
Freedom suits
o Push states to end slavery
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York
o Gradual abolition
o 1840s
Slavery was ended in New York
o 1820s and 1830s
Why then?
2nd Great Awakening
o Stresses equality in eye of God
o Perfectionism
Influence of Great Britain and other countries
o Working with British abolitionists
Middle class
Slavery is expanding to the Deep South
o Very profitable
Southerners have political power
Internal slave trade
o Focus of the movement
o Colonization
Send them to Africa (Liberia)
Voluntary, 15000
Thomas Jeffersons idea
o Mainstream Abolitionism
David Walker appeal, 1829
Kill or be killed
Incite slave revolts
Exception
AASS
William Lloyd Garrison
Immediate abolition; pacifist; no compensation
Methods
o Make speeches
o Publish newspapers; pamphlets

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o Send petitions to Congress
o Hold meetings
o Help publish slave narratives
o Moral Suasion
o Northern Reaction
Hated Abolitionists
Creating tension
Northerners profit
Competition for workers
Racism
Some advocate splitting up the country
o William Lloyd Garrison
Burning the Constitution
Treats women as equals
Split the AASS
Created the American and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
Elijah Lovejon
o Abolitionist; Midwest
Black Abolitionists
o Frederick Douglass
AASS
Leaves
Should use politics
North Star
Newspaper
o Martin Delany
First to speak in front of Congress
o Henry Box Brown
Shipped himself to the North