1. Ch.8 Sect.1: Religion Sparks Reform

2. The Second Great Awakening
Charles Finney most famous preacher of the era
Broad religious movement that swept U.S. after…
Preachers rejected…
They emphasized…
Some preachers could draw audiences of…

4. Revivalism Revival— Could last 4-5 days! During the day…
In the evening…
Western NY became…
Father of modern revivalism

5. The African-American Church
Christianity brought to enslaved Africans
Baptist/Methodist churches open to…
In the South…
In the East…
African Methodist Episcopal Church
National Convention
Richard Allen

7. Ch.8 Sect.2: Slavery & Abolition

8. Abolitionists Speak Out
1820s more than…
1400 blacks…
Abolition—
William Lloyd Garrison
Emancipation—
New England Anti-Slavery Society &
Core black support

10. Free Blacks David Walker advised blacks to… Many free blacks joined…
Blacks in the south…
Blacks in the north…

11. Another David Walker

12. Frederick Douglass Born into slavery 1817
Taught how to read and write by…
By 1838
Read…
Sponsored by Garrison to…
The North Star

13. Life Under Slavery Population had nearly doubled between…
18th century slaves…
1830 slaves…
By 1850 most slaves lived on plantations or large farms that employed…

14. Urban Slavery Promise of cotton wealth lured…
Slaves needed to work in mills & on ships
million rural and…
Women and children
“hired out”

15. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Born into slavery 1800 in Virginia
He was a gifted…
August 1831…
80 followers and attacked 4 plantations
Whites killed 200 blacks

16. Slave Owners Defend Slavery
Debate over slavery in Virginia voted on
Antebellum—
Education/Privilege inspired revolt
Slave codes—
Some proslavery advocates used…
Benefited blacks?
Happy slave myth
Abolitionist campaign
Gag rule—