The Abolitionist Movement. What is REFORM? the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. EXAMPLES of reform movements...

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The Abolitionist Movement

What is REFORM? the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. EXAMPLES of reform movements...

Gradualism Slavery had to be ended gradually. First stop new slaves from coming in. Then end slavery in North, then upper South, then lower South. Would give South’s economy time to adjust to loss of labor.

Abolitionism Began to gain popularity in 1830s. Argued for immediate emancipation of slaves. Drew strength from 2 nd Great Awakening

Key People of the Abolitionist Movement William Lloyd Garrison Harriet Beecher Stowe Nat Turner Frederick Douglass Grimke Sisters

William Lloyd Garrison Founded Boston’s antislavery newspaper, the Liberator in Called strongly for immediate freeing of slaves.

William Lloyd Garrison

Harriet Beecher Stowe Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a best-selling anti-slavery novel Graphically portrayed the mistreatment of slaves Gained support for the abolitionist movement

Nat Turner Nat Turner’s Rebellion – Led a slave rebellion that killed about 55 whites – Increased southern fears of slave rebellion and led to harsh fugitive slave laws

Frederick Douglass Runaway slave from Maryland. Published North Star, abolitionist newspaper in Published autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas in 1845.

Frederick Douglass “In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.”

Grimke Sisters Angelina and Sarah From SC, moved north to work openly against slavery. Family owned slaves. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South published by Angelina in 1836.

Grimke Sisters

Sojourner Truth a.k.a.: Isabella Baumfree Gained freedom in 1827 when NY freed all remaining slaves. Gave antislavery speeches which drew huge crowds.

Sojourner Truth “I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.” -1867

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