1. Fact Test

2. Subject Specific Quiz
Last lesson you specified a topic that you needed to develop most from the quiz you did in lesson.
Please get a pen ready to complete a topic specific quiz.

3. Abolitionist Literature

4. Mark off in your planner

5. Topic: Abolitionist Press & Literature
KNOW
Recall abolitionist literature
EXPLAIN
the reactions to abolitionist literature
EVALUATE
Decide how strong abolitionist sentiment in the north was
Based on the lesson topic, and what you have studied so far, discuss:
What will be covered in today’s lesson?
What will you need to know by the end of today’s lesson?

6. The Second Great Awakening
Students make notes on the second great awakening videos.

7. Abolitionist Press and Literature
Abolitionists were the first to recognise the extent to which public pressure, organised and sustained over time, could influence government policy.
Using books, newspapers, pamphlets, poetry, published sermons, and other forms of literature, abolitionists spread their message.
Criteria What would need to happen for an anti-slavery writing to be significant?

8. Abolitionist Press and Literature
You have been given a star diagram, please stick this in your notes.
You will firstly carousel 5 examples of abolitionist literature around, and give each a mark out of 5.
Below your diagram explain why the literature has got the mark you have given it, with reference to your criteria.

9. How could one book arguably lead to a civil war?
“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!”
- Abraham Lincoln
What might this book have said to arguably have started the American Civil War?
How could one book arguably lead to a civil war?

10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom (middle-aged slave with a wife and children), and Harry,(the son of another slave Eliza) – are planned to be sold by their owner Arthur Shelby, to raise funds for the farm they work on as slaves.
Eliza hears and runs away with her son. During Eliza's escape, she meets up with her husband George Harris, who had run away previously. They decide to attempt to reach Canada. However, they are tracked by a slave hunter named Tom Loker…
Tom is sold and placed on a riverboat. While on board, Tom befriends a young white girl named Eva. Eva's father buys Tom and takes him with the family to their home in New Orleans.
Tom and Eva begin to relate to one another because of the deep Christian faith they both share.

11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Eva’s father debates slavery with his cousin Ophelia who, while opposing slavery, is prejudiced against blacks
After Tom has lived with the St. Clares for two years, Eva grows very ill. Before she dies she experiences a vision of heaven. As a result of her death and vision, the other characters resolve to change their lives.
Before Eva’s father can follow through on his pledge, he dies after being stabbed outside of a tavern. His wife goes against her late husband's vow and sells Tom at auction to a vicious plantation owner Simon Legree.
Legree begins to hate Tom when Tom refuses Legree's order to whip his fellow slave. Legree beats Tom viciously and resolves to crush his new slave's faith in God.

12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Tom refuses to stop reading his Bible and comforting the other slaves as best he can
Loker changed as the result of being healed by the Quakers. George, Eliza, and Harry obtained their freedom after crossing into Canada. Uncle Tom almost succumbs to hopelessness. When Tom refuses to tell Legree where 2 slaves had gone, Legree orders his overseers to kill Tom. As Tom is dying, he forgives the overseers.
Very shortly before Tom's death, George Shelby (Arthur Shelby's son) arrives to buy Tom's freedom but finds he is too late

13. What do you think the message of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is?

14. Add in green pen
The character Uncle Tom is an African American who retains his integrity and refuses to betray his fellow slaves at the cost of his life.
His firm Christian principles in the face of his brutal treatment made him a hero to whites.
In contrast, his tormenter Simon Legree, the Northern slave-dealer turned plantation owner, enraged them with his cruelty. Stowe convinced readers that the institution of slavery itself was evil, because it supported people like Legree and enslaved people like Uncle Tom.
Yet Uncle Tom’s cabin reflected the prevailing stereo-types of blacks far more than it overturned commonly held views. Stowe portrayed light skinned blacks as aggressive and intelligent, whilst dark skinned blacks, such as Uncle Tom, were portrayed as docile and submissive.
Despite this, because of her work, thousands rallied to the anti-slavery cause.

15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-Slavery novel by Harrier Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain.
Uncle Tom's Cabin outraged people in the South. Reactions ranged from a bookseller in Mobile, Alabama, being forced to leave town for selling the novel to threatening letters sent to Stowe (including a package containing a slave's severed ear). Many Southern writers, like Simms, soon wrote their own books in opposition to Stowe's novel.
Some critics highlighted Stowe's paucity of life-experience relating to Southern life, saying that it led her to create inaccurate descriptions of the region. For instance, she had never been to a Southern plantation. However, Stowe always said she based the characters of her book on stories she was told by runaway slaves in Cincinnati.

16. Abolitionist Press and Literature
Add Uncle Tom’s Cabin to your star diagram and justify your mark below.

17. Jefferson Davis Source

18. Adapted from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Volume One (of Two), by Jefferson Davis, 1881
While the compromise measures of 1850 were pending and the excitement concerning them was at its highest, I one day overtook Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, and Mr. Berrien, of Georgia, in the Capitol grounds. They were in earnest conversation. It was the 7th of March, the day on which Mr. Webster had delivered his great speech. Mr. Clay, addressing me in the friendly manner which he had always employed since I was a schoolboy, asked me what I thought of the speech. I liked it better than he did. He then suggested that I should “join the compromise men,” saying that it was a measure which he thought would probably give peace to the country for thirty years. Then, turning to Mr. Berrien, he said, “You and I will be under ground before that time, but our young friend here may face trouble in the future.” I somewhat impatiently declared my unwillingness to transfer to future generations a problem which they would be relatively less able to meet than we were.

19. Peer Assessment
Please swap your answer with your partner and have a green pen ready.
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