The Fight Against Slavery

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The Fight Against Slavery

• By 1804, all northern states had ended or pledged
  to end slavery.
• By the mid 1800s a small group of people known
  as abolitionists were calling for an end to
  slavery.
• William Lloyd Garrison was a leading
  abolitionist he wanted not only to end slavery,
  but to grant full political rights to African
  Americans
• He launched the abolitionist newspaper the
  Liberator in 1831.
• He also founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
  which sought ways to abolish slavery

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Fight Against Slavery

• Frederick Douglass was the most powerful black
  abolitionist during the mid 1800s.
• He was born a slave but escaped to the North and
  his speeches and personal experiences helped to
  gain momentum for the abolitionist movement
• I appear this evening as thief
• and a robber. I stole this head,
• these limbs, this body from my master,
• And ran off with them.

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Fight Against Slavery

• One way that abolitionists fought the system was
  through the Underground Railroad
• This was a network of both white and black
  abolitionists who helped serve and protect
  escaped slaves along their route to the North.
• Harriet Tubman was one of the leading
  Conductors and helped more than 300 slaves
  escape to freedom

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Opposition to Abolition

• Both Northerners and Southerners could be against
  the abolition movement
• Northerner manufacturers depended on the cotton
  from slave labor to produce clothing northerners
  also feared freed blacks might take their jobs
• Southerners feared their way of life was being
  attacked also losing a free labor force if
  slavery is abolished