1. Chapter 12 – Section 2
Fight Against Slavery

2. Roots of the anti-slavery movement
1780: PA eliminates slavery; 1804 every northern state eliminates slavery
American Colonization Society (1817): Antislavery, slaves to be freed gradually, transported to Liberia; Slaves did not want to go back to Africa because they were born in US and wanted to stay in US

3. Growing opposition to slavery
Second Great Awakening & Charles Finney influence anti-slavery movement
Abolitionists:
William Lloyd Garrison: Quaker, wanted full political rights to African Americans. He wrote the “Liberator” newspaper about anti-slavery. In press for 34 years, ended when slavery ended.
David Walker: Wrote “Appeal: to the Coloured Citizens of the World”, which told slaves to rebel to gain freedom.
Frederick Douglass: Born into slavery, learned to read, and escaped to North. Wrote the “North Star”.
John Quincy Adams: Proposed constitutional amendment to ban slavery for every new state  did not pass
“Amistad”: Ship sailing from Africa to US with slaves. Slaves rebelled, killed captain, told crew to turn around. The crew sailed to US. Adams fought for slaves and helped regain their freedom.

4. Not underground, and not a railroad
Underground railroad
Not underground, and not a railroad
Whites and blacks, Northerners and Southerners  All helped slaves escape to freedom
“Conductors” lead slaves to “stations”, which were houses of abolitonists
Harriet Tubman  “Black Moses”  Lead slaves to freedom

5. Abolitionists faced opposition in North and South
Opposing abolition
Abolitionists faced opposition in North and South
North benefited because of imported cotton from South, and feared that freed slaves would take their jobs
Mobs attacked anti-slavery meetings
South needed slaves for cotton fields, offered rewards for arrests of abolitionists

6. ABOLITIONIST: Reformers who wanted to abolish, or end, slavery
Vocabulary
ABOLITIONIST: Reformers who wanted to abolish, or end, slavery