By Graham Ross Subject: The Abolition of Slavery

 Wrote a weekly newspaper The Liberator, that promoted the anti-slavery movement.  "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.... I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD." - first issue of the Liberator  When he was 25, he joined the Abolitionist movement by joining the American Colonization Society, a group that believed that African-American slaves should move to a territory on the West coast of Africa.  In 1830, he worked as a co-editor of the Abolitionist paper The Genius of Universal Emancipation.

 Spent his life after slavery speaking about it to promote abolitionism and racial equality.  When he was a child, he was dehumanized as a slave would be, even though he wasn’t one.  After moving to Boston and back, he was enslaved brutally, yet he planned to escape by the end of 1836, but didn’t until  He moved to New York in 1838 to educate himself about the world and teach people about the hardships of slavery.  He subscribed and agreed to Garrison’s Liberator.  He wrote a autobiography, and later he would go on a speaking tour about it, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself.

 She was one of the main conductors of the Underground Railroad  She got over 300 slaves to freedom and never lost one  She was born a slave in Maryland in She worked as a house servant when she was about five and a field worker when she was about thirteen  After forming a family with her husband John Tubman, she ran away from her enslaver.  She found safe places and special techniques that helped her free all of the slaves that she did.

 The people that were slaves have disliked the injustice of slavery since 1619 when the first slaves arrived in America.  In 1787 slavery was made illegal  In 1808 the slave trade was made illegal  In 1861 the Civil War begins  In 1863 President Lincoln issues the Proclamation Emancipation, saying that all slaves are free.  In 1865 Lincoln was assassinated, the Civil War ended, and the Thirteenth Amendment was issued, stating that slavery is illegal in America

 Georgia complained about the oppressive high tariffs before the war  There were big opinion differences between the North and the South of the Constitution.  The Nullification Crisis was viewed very North-centered by the South  Politics were viewed differently in the North and the South  A economic downpour hit the North, dividing the nation into the wealthy, agricultural South and the poor, industrial North

 It effected:  Clubs  Groups  Newspapers  Religion  Books  People’s, light and dark skinned, thoughts and free time  Speeches

 The Quakers declared slavery un-Christian.  Many cultural and political powers spoke against slavery including: William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, and John Greenleaf Whitter.  They provided safe places in the underground railroad  Created by white people, the American Anti-Slavery Society spoke for abolitionism

 There are no other reasons to free the slaves other than they are being abused and dehumanized because of the unjust slave owners.

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