2. The Abolition Movement
Predict: What connection do you think there will be between religion and antislavery feelings?

3. Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831
August 1831 slave Nat Turner led 80 followers in an attack on 4 VA plantations
60 whites were killed
Nat Turner went into hiding
200+ blacks were killed in retaliation

5. The Underground Railroad – led by Harriet Tubman

6. Leading Escaping Slaves Along the Underground Railroad

7. Abolitionists Abolish: Abolition Movement: To do away with. To stop.
The call to end slavery – people spoke out against it

8. William Lloyd Garrison ~
radical white abolitionist who founded The Liberator in 1831

9. Abolition Movement
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817; escaped in 1838 to NY and freedom
1847 founded anti-slavery newspaper The North Star to end slavery through political action
**Named the north star since it guided runaway slaves to freedom

10. Women and Abolition
Sarah and Angelina Grimke ~ white abolitionist sisters - spoke out and wrote articles against slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe ~ white woman who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin against slavery in 1852 – major
reason many Northerners began to
protest slavery

11. Women and Abolition
Sojourner Truth ~ freed at age 30 when slavery was made illegal in NY in 1827
Traveling preacher for abolition

12. Why do you think women might have been quick to get involved in the abolition movement?