1. The Anti Slavery Movement
Chapter 8 Section 3
The Anti Slavery Movement

2. Life Under Slavery Back Breaking task from dawn to dusk
Cultivating fields of cotton, loading freight onto ships, or preparing hot meals in scorching kitchens
Punishments included beatings, whippings, and maiming's.
Basics of life barely provided
Most often slaves could not read or write
Family’s often separated never to reunite

3. Resisting Slavery
Enslaved peoples did what they could to fight against slavery
Broke tools
Trying to escape
Underground Railroad- ever-changing routes helped people to freedom
1822-Denmark Vessey-planned the greatest slave revolt in history
Charlestown South Carolina
Great plan but word leaks out before it could be put into effect

4. Nat Turner 1831 Led followers to Richmond Virginia to gain weapons
Kills nearly 60 people
Captured after 6 weeks on the run
Executed for actions

5. Lives of Free African Americans
Some states In the north began to out law slavery
Thought of Free African Americans worried slave owners
The American Colonization Society is established
Goal was to encourage free blacks to return to Africa
Around 1,000 went back; most were not trusting of this idea
Many Free African Americans worked to establish schools and churches
Some tried to work to change the lives of slaves

6. Abolition Movement
Early 1800’s growing number of Americans are speaking out about slavery
Wanted slavery abolished (ended)
William Lloyd Garrison- printer-Boston-leading abolitionists
The Liberator-anti-slavery newspaper printed by Garrison
Emancipation- freeing of in-slaved people
Fredrick Douglas- former slave- eloquent abolitionist

7. Southerners Cling to Slavery
believed slavery necessary for southern agricultural economy
Argued it benefited the north to because their economy depend on shipping cotton and the textile’s industry use of cotton
Said slavery was a superior labor force to low wage workers of North and problems with workers
Claimed Christianity supported slavery and slaves couldn’t survive with out slaveholders

8. Northerners Resist Abolition
Many Northerners did not support the abolition movement
Workers feared black workers would take their jobs
Wealthily industrialists resented the idea of black entrepreneurs
They worried that the cut to the cotton industry would effect their textile mills
Southern politicians wanted a gag rule to avoid the controversial topic of slavery
Gag Rule- law which prohibited the debate or discussion of slavery in congress.