1. Topic: Evaluating the arguments of Abolitionists

3. Roots of Abolitionism Northern Emancipation (1780-1804)
Quakers in Penn
Small Anti-Slavery Societies
“American Colonization Society” (Monroe and Liberia)
1830s: Northern Reform movements
Women’s suffrage
Second Great Awakening
Utopian movements
Temperance

4. Early Abolitionists New Activism in the 1830s British end slavery
Second Great Awakening’s role
Charles Grandison Finney (1820s)
Theodore Weld American Slavery As It Is (1839)
Henry Ward Beecher

5. Ranges of Abolitionism
The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison- Idealist or Agitator
“radical” abolitionist
Slavery ended immediately
Northern Secession
American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
Free Soil Party
1840s political party
Slavery demeans all work
Against slave expansion into the west
Martin Van Buren
Northern Public Opinion
At first, Northerners don’t care
Despise radical abolition
Opinion slowly changes
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6. African-American Abolitionists
David Walker
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Fredrick Douglass
Runaway slave
Public speaker
Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
Freedwoman
Women’s rights
Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad

7. Conclusion
In your opinion, who was the “best” abolitionist leader in the Ante-bellum period? Explain your reasoning in 3-4 sentences.