   Protestantism was revived in North America  Equality among all – Activists  Frederick Douglass advocated equality for women and slaves The Second Great Awakening

Jennifer Quaglia Ali Johnson

  Full name: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey  Born February 1818 in Maryland  Mother: Harriet Bailey  Education – Taught himself to read  Worked as a slave in Maryland, became a field hand, and then worked as a ship builder. Biography

 Biography, continued  Two escape attempts: First was a failure, the second a success  Anne Murray, Helen Pitts  Had three sons and one daughter  Death in 1895

 Abolitionist Movement  Early 1830s  Anti-American Society founded in 1833  Inspired by religious principles and republican ideology  Religious Abolitionists  Political Abolitionists  Radical and Militant Abolitionists

 Abolitionist Contributions  Autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself  Did not assume the Constitution was a pro- slavery document  Did not advocate the dissolution of the Union

 Abolitionist Contributions  Conferred with Abraham Lincoln  Recruited Northern blacks for Union Army  Underground Railroad  Lectured against Slavery in England

  Changed the way in which the Civil War was viewed  Publicized the abolitionist movement Effect of his Contributions in the Abolitionist Movement

  One of the only men who represented women’s rights  Set precedent for other abolitionists Effect of his Contributions to the Feminist Movement

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