Topic: Evaluating the arguments of Abolitionists

Roots of Abolitionism Northern Emancipation (1780-1804) Quakers in Penn Small Anti-Slavery Societies “American Colonization Society” (Monroe and Liberia) 1830s: Northern Reform movements Women’s suffrage Second Great Awakening Utopian movements Temperance

Early Abolitionists New Activism in the 1830s British end slavery Second Great Awakening’s role Charles Grandison Finney (1820s) Theodore Weld American Slavery As It Is (1839) Henry Ward Beecher

Ranges of Abolitionism The Liberator William Lloyd Garrison- Idealist or Agitator “radical” abolitionist Slavery ended immediately Northern Secession American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) Free Soil Party 1840s political party Slavery demeans all work Against slave expansion into the west Martin Van Buren Northern Public Opinion At first, Northerners don’t care Despise radical abolition Opinion slowly changes Uncle Tom’s Cabin

African-American Abolitionists David Walker Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World Fredrick Douglass Runaway slave Public speaker Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas Sojourner Truth Freedwoman Women’s rights Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

Conclusion In your opinion, who was the “best” abolitionist leader in the Ante-bellum period? Explain your reasoning in 3-4 sentences.