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Reformers & Abolitionists Calls for freedom for slaves and women led to more tension between Northerners and Southerners GOAL #8

Southern Society (1850) “Slavocracy” [plantation owners] 6,000,000 The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers] Black Freemen 250,000 Black Slaves 3,200,000 Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

I. Abolitionist Movement 1816 – A. AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY 1. Raised $ to buy slaves and gradually send to Africa 2. Country of Liberia founded in 1847 wanted gradual, voluntary freedom for all slaves

B. David Walker - free African- American in Boston wrote pamphlet urging slaves to fight for their freedom rather than waiting to be set free by whites 1829  Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World “Some of you whites on the continent of America will yet curse the day you ever were born. You want slaves and want us for your slaves. My colour will yet, root some of you out of the very face of the Earth!!”

Southern Abolitionists – C. Grimke sisters 1. 2 sisters who set their slaves free, moved North to join anti-slavery movement Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké

Anti- Slavery Pamphlets

D. William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879) 1. Antislavery newspaper (1831) a.”The Liberator” – almost killed by mob 2. Wanted immediate freedom for ALL slaves R2-4

E. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) – escaped slave 1845  book -The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass 1847  newspaper -“The North Star” R2-12

F. Sojourner Truth (1787-1883) Escaped slave- became preacher Truth is powerful and it prevails. -Sojourner Truth 1850  Book -The Narrative of Sojourner Truth – told of experiences as a slave R2-10

II. Opposition to Abolitionist Movement A. Viewed as a radical idea, even in the North – feared escaped slaves would take jobs away from whites Became more & more dangerous to speak out Printing presses destroyed Some Abolitionists killed

III. Underground Railroad Thousands of slaves escaped using the Underground Railroad – A. a system of paths which led to the northern states & Canada Some people sheltered and helped the escaping slaves Others tried to catch the fleeing slaves for the reward money

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad “Conductor” ==== leader of the escape “Passengers” ==== escaping slaves “Tracks” ==== routes “Trains” ==== farm wagons transporting the escaping slaves “Depots” ==== safe houses to rest/sleep

B. Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) “Moses” 1. Helped over 300 slaves to freedom. $40,000 bounty on her head. Served as a Union spy during the Civil War. I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. Harriet Tubman “Moses”

Leading Escaping Slaves Along the Underground Railroad

Elizabeth Cady Stanton IV. Women’s Rights – A. Women active in abolition movement began demanding equal rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sojourner Truth Lucretia Mott Susan B. Anthony B. Seneca Falls Convention, NY 1848 – 1. Declaration of Sentiments “All men AND women are created equal” 2. Pushed for suffrage a. right to vote

Early 19c Women Unable to vote. Legal status of a minor. Single  could own her own property. Married  no control over her property or her children. Could not initiate divorce. Couldn’t make wills, sign a contract, or bring suit in court without her husband’s permission.