1. Chapter 10-13 Overview The Fight Against Slavery
LEQ:
How did Abolitionists try to end slavery?

2. Vocabulary/important people Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglas Harriet Tubman

3. In this section: you will learn how reform of the 1800’s spurred a vigorous new effort to end slavery.

4. Roots of the Antislavery Movement “All men are created equal”
Declaration of Independence
Slavery Ends in the North
Pennsylvania became the first state to pass a law that gradually eliminated slavery
The Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Passed March 1, 1780

5. The Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery Summary
Anyone born in PA after the act is no longer a slave or lifelong servants of any kind
Slave were set free by the age of 28
banned all future slavery and protected every freed man from ever being enslaved again

6. Growing Opposition to Slavery Abolitionists
Reformers who wanted to abolish slavery
Complete end to slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionist
Favored full political rights for all African Americans
Editor of the Liberator
Antislavery newspaper

7. Read page 423 – The Liberator Discuss questions (a) and (b)

8. Prominent African American Abolitionists in the North David Walker
Urged enslaved people to rebel to gain their freedom
Fredrick Douglas
Born into slavery
Escaped to freedom in the North

9. Frederick Douglas

11. With your HRT group, read Solomon Northrup’s, Twelve Years a Slave
With your HRT group, read Solomon Northrup’s, Twelve Years a Slave. Page 767 SOAPSTone Describe what is happening.

12. The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad. In your HRT groups, read about the underground railroad and answer the following questions. Page
What is the name given to the system for helping people escape slavery?
Describe the Underground Railroad.
What is a conductor? What is a station?
How did supporters of the Underground Railroad help?
Who is Harriot Tubman?
What did slave owners offer for her capture?
How many African American escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad?
Identify the costs and benefits of helping fugitive slaves escape.
Why do you think people helped the fugitive slaves? Explain.

13. Underground Railroad

14. Checks on Learning
What was the name of the act Pennsylvania passed to gradually end slavery?
What is an Abolitionist?
Who published the Liberator? What was the Liberator?
Name two prominent African American Abolitionists.
Who is Harriet Tubman and why is she important?
What was the Underground Railroad?
Summary. Summarize what you learned from this lesson sentences