The Abolition Movement

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The Abolition Movement
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The Second Great Awakening

• A religious revival that swept the nation
• Protestant Preachers believed that America was
  becoming Immoral.
• Birth a number of Social reforms, including
  abolition.
• Christians Viewed slavery as a Moral Dilemma

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Background

• Abolition
• End of Slavery
• Emancipation
• Freeing of slaves
• Gradualism
• gradually end slavery by starting in the North
  and slowly moving down South
• Colonization
• Send slaves back to Africa
• Necessary Evil
• Slavery was a economic boost
• The south argued that the emergence of cotton as
  the most important cash crop in the country made
  slaves necessary.

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White Abolitionist

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Editor of The Liberator wanted the immediate
  emancipation of slaves
• The Grimke Sisters
• Quakers against slavery who preached and lectured
  about the parallels of slaves and women

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White Resistance

• Gag Rule
• Most white Northerners disliked Southerners, but
  wanted to stay out of the slave controversy.
• The Southern politicians enacted the GAG rule in
  order to prohibit debate and discussion in
  Congress on the subject of slavery.
• The Northerners supported this law and it was
  renewed every year for eight years.

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Nat Turners Rebellion

• Nat Turner
• Nat Turner, a black slave and preacher, led the
  most famous slave revolt in United States history
  
• In 1831, Turner and from 60 to 70 other slaves
  killed about 60 whites in Virginia. The victims
  included the family of Joseph Travis, Turner's
  owner
• Whites retaliated
• Feared an uprising from slaves
• killed 200 blacks
• Most were innocent with no connection to the
  uprising.

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Black Abolitionist

• Frederick Douglass
• Born a slave (escaped), Douglass became a noted
  reformer, author, and orator. He devoted his life
  to the abolition of slavery and the fight for
  black rights.
• Sojourner Truth Born Isabella Baumfree
• former slave who gave powerful speeches about
  abolition which held her audiences spellbound.
• David Walker
• free black man who said that slavery was
  un-Christian and un-American, supported violence
  and rebellion to end slavery