1. Abolition & Women’s Rights
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2nd Period

2. Abolitionists Call for Ending Slavery (snakes)
Abolition, the movement to end slavery, began In the late 1700’s.
In1807 Congress banned importation of African slaves into the U.S.
David Walker, a free African American in Boston, printed a pamphlet in 1829 urging to revolt.
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper in Boston. “I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard”

3. Eyewitness to Slavery (Tortoises)
In 1845, Frederick Douglass published his autobiography that described his slave experience. As an abolitionist, he spoke out against slavery.
Sojourner Truth, a slave named Isabella, fled her owners and went to live with the Quakers who set her free.
1843 she changed her name to Sojourner Truth to ‘declare the truth to the people’ about abolition

4. The Underground Railroad (Squirrels)
The Underground Railroad is not an actual railroad. It was a path from South to North to help escaped slaves get to freedom.
Slaves traveled at night and hid by day at places called ‘stations’.
Frederick Douglass hid up to 11 runaways at his home in Rochester, NY.
Henry Brown, an escaped slave, traveled for 24 hours in a 2 ½ X 2 ft. wide box to get to freedom.
He traveled to Boston to help on the Underground Railroad.

5. Harriet Tubman (Deer)
She was born a slave in Maryland. She escaped in 1849.
She made 19 dangerous journeys to free enslaved persons. She never lost a passenger.
She freed her parents.
She carried a pistol to threaten slave hunters and medicine to keep babies from crying.
She had a $40,000 bounty on her head.
She was never caught.

6. Women Reformers Face Barriers (Rabbits)
Women in the 1800’s could not vote, sit on juries, hold public office or speak in public.
Single women were able to manage their own properties, but married women had to let their husbands control property.
Married women had to give their wages to their husbands.
When 2 women were forced to sit behind a curtain during a convention, William L. Garrison joined and supported them.

7. The Seneca falls convention (coyotes)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott hold the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Between 100 to 300 women and men attended.
They created the Declaration of Sentiments that stated that all men and women were created equal.
The resolution of suffrage won by a slim margin.

8. Continued Calls for women’s rights (Lizards)
3 women lent powerful voices to the women’s rights movement in the mid 1800”s: Sojourner Truth, Maria Mitchell, and Susan B. Anthony.
In 1851, Sojourner Truth went to a women’s rights convention in Ohio, but people didn’t listen because she also supported abolition.
Maria Mitchell was a scientist that fought for women’s rights by helping found the Association for the Advancement of Women.
Susan B. Anthony worked for temperance and anti-slavery.