1. The Abolitionist Movement
Essential Questions:
What different methods for ending slavery were debated during this time?
Why was abolitionism not a popular movement in the North or in the South?
Do Now:
“Resistance to Slavery” in packet
Homework:
Period 2 and 3: Quiz Tuesday on Chapter 6
Period 9: Quiz Monday on Chapter 6
Chapter 7 Lesson 1 Manifest Destiny pg. 181

2. Southern Anti-Slavery Movement
American Colonization Society
Organization designed to send African Americans back to Africa (Liberia)
Many blacks did not want to go to Africa
Southern abolitionists felt pressure to move north
1833 – South turned away from all reforms in fear it would lead to abolitionism

3. Abolitionism Abolitionists tried to tie movement to Christianity
Focused on the most violent, horrific stories of slavery
Hatred of slavery led to hatred of all Southerners
Message spread through books and newspapers

4. Abolitionists
Theodore Weld – wrote books describing horror stories of slavery
Elijah Parrish Lovejoy – had newspaper criticizing slavery, was killed because of it
William Lloyd Garrison – wrote The Liberator which criticized slavery

5. Response to Abolition
In the North, citizens looked upon the abolitionist movement with views ranging from strong support to indifference to opposition.
In the South, residents feared that their entire way of life was under attack and defended slavery as they believed it to be vital to their economy.
Fearing war between the North and South and an influx of freed African Americans looking for work, mobs in Northern cities attacked abolitionists.
Many Southerners thought newspapers like the Liberator helped spark the rebellion led by Nat Turner, an enslaved man that killed more than 50 Virginians.