1. do now: copy notes for abolitionists you didn’t get (add to 603)
John Brown’s Raid (1859)
Raid military weapons; arm slaves; rebellion
hung
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (1850s)
URR freed thousands
Tubman freed 100+?
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Showed Northerners the real brutality of slavery

2. do now: copy notes for abolitionists you didn’t get (add to 603)
Establishment of the Republican Party (1850s)
No slavery west
Lincoln wins prez
William Lloyd Garrison and The American Anti-Slavery Society ( )
The Liberator
Called for immediate abolition

3. 604: Slavery
12/20

4. William Lloyd Garrison and The American Anti-Slavery Society

5. The Free-Soil Party

6. John Brown’s Raid

7. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

11. Establishment of the Republican Party

12. Thoughts?
“However benignly it might be painted, slavery still remained a cancer in the heart of American democracy, a moral outrage that mocked the nation’s claim to be a model of social and political enlightenment.”

13. Slavery
America’s “peculiar institution”
Race based
Brutality

14. Plantation Slavery 50% of southern slaves owned by 5% of population
5% Controlled the wealth, politics, and social scene of south
What does this tell us about most of the south?

15. Frederick Douglass Escaped slavery + was taught to read and write
Wrote Narrative of the Life of a Slave
Published The North Star

16. Drunk History
Douglass

17. Comparing Douglass’ experiences
Annotate for and identify similarities and differences in his experiences as both a Northern and a Southern slave
How was he treated as a Northern slave?
How was he treated as a Southern slave?

18. What were some distinct similarities and differences that you noticed about the abolitionists? What does this say about the abolitionist movement as a whole?
What are your three take-aways from the discussion about Frederick Douglass’ experiences?