Abolitionists

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Abolitionists

• Americans Who Worked to stop slavery in America

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Effectiveness Scale

• As you take notes, consider to yourself how
  effective each of these abolitionists were in
  fighting to end slavery. They all wanted it gone,
  but some were more effective than others. Use the
  scale below
• _______________________________
• 1-Great 2-Somewhat 3-OK
  4-Somewhat 5-Great
• Harm Harmful Did some good
  Helpful Help

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Cotton Gin Technology That Promotes Slavery

• Eli Whitney created the cotton gin as a gift for
  his friend, Katy Greene. She was a widow, who
  could not harvest enough cotton to pay her bills
  it was too hard to get the seeds out of the
  cotton. The cotton gin pulled the cotton through
  brushes so that the seeds came out easily. As
  much cotton as could be grown, they could now
  harvest. Thus, an increase in slavery occurred.

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Nat Turner

• Nat Turner was a slave who was a preacher for the
  slave village. The story of Moses leading the
  Israelites out of slavery appealed to him. In
  1831,He led a revolt of slaves in Virginia,
  killing several people. He was caught before he
  could escape Virginia and was killed. This
  violence was a warning to the country that
  troubled times were ahead.

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Sojourner Truth

• Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) was born as a
  slave in New York. After she gained her freedom,
  she traveled around to speak the truth about the
  evils of slavery. She was a powerful speaker
  writer.

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John Brown

• John Brown led the Bloody Kansas revolt over
  popular sovereignty, as they voted on whether to
  allow slavery. Then, he led an attack on the army
  post at Harpers Ferry! He wanted to steal the
  armys guns, give them to slaves, and lead them
  in their fight out of Virginia up to the North.
  He was captured at Harpers Ferry by a young
  colonel (Robert E. Lee), tried, and hanged for
  his crimes.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Beecher Stowe interviewed slaves who had
  escaped from the South. From these stories, she
  wrote Uncle Toms Cabin. It was a best-selling
  book, and shocked the world about some of the
  horror stories from plantations in the South.

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Frederick Douglass

• Frederick Douglass was a slave who had been
  taught to read and write. After he escaped, he
  used his great speaking ability to talk about the
  evils of slavery and he published a paper called
  the North Star. He later called for free black
  men to help fight for the North in the Civil War.

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William Lloyd Garrison

• William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist
  newspaper called the Liberator. It spoke out
  harshly against the plantation system, and an
  reward for his capture was placed by the Southern
  states.

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Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Tubman was a former slave who established
  the Underground RR. She led 19 trips that
  freed 300 people. She was never caught, though a
  40,000 reward was offered. She was known as the
  Black Moses.

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Underground RR
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Dred Scott

• Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom
  in the U.S. Supreme Court after his owner had
  taken him to a free state. The Court ruled that
  he was not a citizen but property under the
  law. This case couldve outlawed slavery, if the
  judges had chosen to do so. Instead, this
  decision indirectly led to the Civil War.

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Henry Box Brown

• In 1849, Henry got some abolitionists to put him
  in a box, and mail him to the abolitionist
  society in Philadelphia. With only a tool for air
  holes, a canteen, and some biscuits, he traveled
  in the box for 350 miles from Richmond to
  Philadelphia. The trip took 27 hours, and the box
  was 3 x 2 x 2 ½!

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Abraham Lincoln

• Though Lincoln was opposed to slavery, he felt
  that only Congress could abolish slavery. He did
  promise to keep it from spreading to new states.
  When the Civil War occurs, he gives the
  Emancipation Proclamation that frees all the
  slaves when the war is over.

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• Central Abolitionist Project
• Provide a chart of how each period rated each
  abolitionist.
• Provide a Rating Scale of Your Classs Ratings
  (1-5)
• Provide a Rating Scale of Your Teams Ratings
  (1-5)
• Discuss the similarities differences between
  your class ratings and the Teams ratings.
• Draw a political cartoon about the effectiveness
  of 1 or more of the abolitionists.
• Write a paragraph on who you think was the
  unsung hero of the Abolitionist Movement.

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• Abolitionists
• Abolitionists Per. 1 Per. 2 Per. 3 AVE
• Nat Turner 2.1 1.8 1.8 1.9
• Sojourner Truth 4.3 4.3 4.1 4.2
• John Brown 2.6 2.0 1.5 2.0
• Harriet B. Stowe 3.8 4.0 3.6 3.8
• Frederick Douglass 4.4 4.5 4.8 4.6

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• Abolitionists
• Abolitionists Per 1 Per 2 Per 3 AVE
• William L. Garrison 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.6
• Harriet Tubman 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0
• Dred Scott 3.0 3.5 3.1 3.2
• Henry Box Brown 3.1 4.1 3.2 3.5
• Abraham Lincoln 4.5 4.8 4.8 4.7

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• ABOLITIONISTS CENTRALS TOP 10
• 1. Harriet Tubman (5.0) 6. William L. Garrison
  (3.6)
• 2. Abraham Lincoln (4.7) 7. Henry Box Brown
  (3.5)
• 3. Frederick Douglass (4.6) 8. Dred Scott (3.2)
• 4. Sojourner Truth (4.2) 9. John Brown (2.0)
• 5. Harriet B. Stowe (3.8) 10. Nat Turner (1.9)