1. Chapter 14, section 2
Abolition of Slavery

2. 1. Types of Abolitionists
Wanted to abolish or get rid of slavery because of religious, political, economic, and symbolic reasons. They did not agree.
Abolitionists- a person who wants to end slavery everywhere immediately.
Freesoilers- a person who wants to end slavery gradually by not allowing its expansion into the western territories for moral reasons (it’s wrong to own another person.

3. 2. Different anti-slavery philosophies
American Colonization Society-
Goal was to resettle African Americans in Africa or the Caribbean. They purchased slaves from slaveholders and sent them to Liberia (“place of freedom”). 12, ,000 settled there between 1822 and 1865
Paul Cuffe (African-American) joined as he believed Blacks would never gain equality in U.S.
Most Blacks were against this because:
It would strengthen slavery
The U.S. had been their home for hundreds of years

5. Different anti-slavery philosophies
New England/American Anti-Slavery Society
Founded by William Lloyd Garrison
Newspaper was The Liberator
Called for immediately freeing all slaves everywhere

6. 3. Abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Wealthy slave-owning family from South Carolina
Freed the slaves they inherited
Lectured and wrote against slavery

7. Abolitionists Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm- David Walker-
1st African American newspaper, Freedom’s Journal
David Walker-
Free Black from Boston
Told Blacks to rebel and overthrow slavery

8. Frederick Douglass- Most widely known African American abolitionist
Escaped slavery and could be returned
Best known as a speaker
Editor of anti-slavery newspaper The North Star

9. Abolitionists Isabella Baumfree “Belle” Harriet Tubman
Better known as Sojourner Truth
Speaking to end slavery
Supported women’s rights
Harriet Tubman
Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

11. Elijah Lovejoy
Owned/edited anti-slavery newspaper
was shot and killed

12. 4. Northern opposition to Abolition:
Racists did not want African Americans freed to perhaps take their jobs. They also did not want to associate with African-Americans and felt they were inferior to the white race and might encourage their children to do bad things.

13. 5. Opposition to Abolition in the South:
Almost all
Abolitionists advocated extreme violence (“kill your masters”)
Southerners pointed out violent incidences as a reason to keep slavery