1. Slavery and Abolition
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2. William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionist – person who wanted to end slavery.
The Liberator – newspaper aimed towards emancipation (freeing of slaves/ending of slavery)
Founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society then the American Anti-Slavery Society
1835 Boston mob dragged him through town on the end of a rope.
Attacked churches and government for failing to condemn slavery.

3. David Walker Free black North Carolinian who moved to Boston.
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World advised African Americans to fight for freedom rather than wait.
In the North slaves worked lowest-paying jobs
South – day laborers

4. Frederick Douglass Taught to read and right by slave owners wife.
Escaped to freedom
Lecturer for American Anti-Slavery Society
Newspaper: The North Star

5. Rural Slavery Large plantations Worked in fields and as house slaves
Lived in shacks that were horrible.

6. Urban Slavery Were not as skilled as rural slaves
Worked in factories and had to give their owners their wages.

7. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Plantation slave who after receiving a severe beating escaped.
Didn’t go to the North, instead organized a rebellion.
50 followers moved from plantation to plantation slaughtering about 70 whites.
Members were captured and executed (16)
Turner was caught and hung
Result: stricter rules were made for slaves.

8. Virginia Debate
People in Virginia debated on the gradual ending of slavery.
Referendum vote was lost 73-58
Closed the debate during the antebellum- Pre Civil War South

9. Regulating African American Slaves
Slave Codes:
Couldn’t preach the gospel unless “respectable” slaveholders were present
Free blacks lost the right to own guns, purchase alcohol, assemble in public, and testify in court.
Couldn’t own private property.
Couldn’t learn to read and write, work independently as carpenters or blacksmiths in some Southern cities.

10. ProSlavery Arguments
In the Bible: passages said that counseled servants should obey their masters.
Some churches now sided with slavery.
Slave was a “beloved” member of the plantation family
In the North workers were fired for being old or sick, but Southern slaves were members of the plantation forever.
Gag rule was put into place which said no more petitions could enter congress on the slavery issue (later repealed)