9-2: Northerners Change Their Thinking 11/2-3/11
Introduction Time Period: 1850’s Question: Should slavery exist in America? Union close to splitting away from Confederacy
Action Against Slavery Many Northerners: Abolitionists: end slavery William Lloyd Garrison: famous abolitionist Liberator – anti-slavery newspaper 1833: started anti-slave movement Many followers
Abolitionist Movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncpegyDo0E William Lloyd Garrison American Anti-Slavery Society 1,300 to 250,000 people Wrote to Congress Sent letters to South
Abolitionist Movement William Lloyd Garrison Bounty: $500,000 Harriet Tubman 70 slaves to freedom
Abolitionist Movement Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln Slave-owning days were numbered
Action Against Slavery Southern Abolitionists Sarah & Angelina Grimke: daughters of slaveholder Spoke against slavery
Action Against Slavery Underground Railroad secret routes of escape for slaves Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60oFmPwLz8U
A Closer Look UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Tracks – secret routes Stations – secret hiding places Conductors – people helping slaves escape
A Closer Look UNDERGROUND RAILROAD used by 100,000 slaves
Critical Thinking UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Why do you think Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery, returned South to help others?
Comprehension Who were the abolitionists? People who wanted to end slavery. Abolitionists set up an underground railroad to help slaves escape to freedom in the North or in Canada.
Books Change Northern Thinking Frederick Douglass Escaped Slave (21) Abolitionist Leader Able to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Books Change Northern Thinking Solomon Northup Freed Slave Twelve Years a Slave Kidnapped (12 years) Friend helped him gain freedom
Books Change Northern Thinking Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Cruelty to slaves in a new way How could someone own somebody else?
Comprehension Name the authors who turned many Americans against slavery. Frederick Douglass Solomon Northup Harriet Beecher Stowe
Terminology Intelligence Network of secret escape routes enslaved African Americans followed to reach freedom in the North Underground Railroad 1) 24 – points 125 – points 48 – points
Terminology Intelligence Person who wanted to end slavery Abolitionist 1) 44 – points 7 – points 150 – points