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5/17 Today’s Agenda DO NOW: take handouts and have hw out to be checked Homework: #36 due Friday Vocab/Test May 24th Aim: How did the abolitionists make a difference to humanity? Abolitionist chart The Underground RR Escape! Interactive
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Harriet Tubman Escaped from slavery Conductor of Underground Railroad
Returned to the south 19 times to help other runaways escape slavery Led over 300 slaves to freedom, including her parents * 40,000 reward for capture
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Friends About William Lloyd Garrison LIKE
Public Figure LIKE Friends prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. editor of the 1831 abolitionist newspaper The Liberator one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Like author, wrote and published the novel
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The novel showed evils of slavery saw fugitive slave law as an injustice
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Best known African American abolitionist
Like Frederick Douglass Best known African American abolitionist Went against slave codes and learned to read escaped from slavery Traveled giving lectures about horrors of slavery Published an antislavery paper, the “North Star”
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John Brown (abolitionist)
About John Brown (abolitionist) Public Figure An American abolitionist who believed violence could be used to overthrow institution of slavery Believed God wanted him to punish supporters of slavery Moved to Kansas to help make it a free state Inspired “Bleeding Kansas” Like
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INTERACTIVE The Underground Railroad
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