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Slavery and Abolition

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Slavery became an explosive issue, as Southerners increasingly defended it, while Northerners increasingly attacked it.

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addition, the abolition movement gained momentum in attempting to end slavery.

Main IdeaSlide3

AbolitionWilliam Lloyd Garrison

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionists Speak OutSlide4

Definition -

movement to outlaw slavery that gained momentum in the

1830sAboltionist

Movement

AbolitionSlide5

white abolitionist and newspaper editor in Boston, Massachusetts

In 1831, he began publishing

The Liberator, a newspaper that called for immediate, uncompensated emancipation (freeing of slaves)

In 1833, he started the American Anti-Slavery Society, a group of white and black members who were committed to ending slavery

William Lloyd Garrison

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American abolitionist and escaped slave from Maryland who became a public speaker for the American Anti-Slavery

Society

Eventually published his own newspaper,

The Northstar

Frederick DouglassSlide7

U.S. had 2 million slaves by 1830, and by 1860, the U.S. had 4 million slaves

Most slaves had been born in the U.S., spoke English, and worked on plantations

Marriage allowed but not legally protected by law

Life Under SlaverySlide8

Plantation (rural) slaverySlaves worked from dawn until dusk in the fields

A white overseer or slave driver was placed in charge of work crews to make sure slaves worked throughout the day

Plantation SlaverySlide9

some skilled jobs in cities were opened up for slaves

Mill work, shipping, carpentry, blacksmithing

Slave owners hired out their slaves to factory owners

Urban Slavery Slide10

Stono Rebellion

Gabriel Prosser Denmark Vesey Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Slave

RebellionsSlide11

(1739) – 20 slaves in South Carolina tried to escape to Spanish controlled Florida

all were captured and killed, then beheaded

Sometimes called Cato's Conspiracy

Stono Rebellion

Stono

Rebellion

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(1800) – plotted to take over Richmond, Virginia

Captured and killed

Gabriel Prosser

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(1820) – plotted to take over Charleston, South Carolina

He and his followers were captured and killed before they rebelled

Denmark Vesey Slide14

(1831) – 80 slaves in Virginia attacked several plantations, killing 60 whites

State militia captured Turner and his followers

Put on trial, convicted, and hanged

Nat Turner’s Rebellion Slide15

white

on black violence erupted (200 blacks killed)

southern whites determined to defend the institution of slavery

slave codes – state laws passed to restrict slaves’ activities

Significance of the Slave RebellionsSlide16

Women and Reform

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At the same time the abolitionist and temperance movements grew, another reform movement to give equal rights to women took root. This became known as the women’s suffrage (right to vote) movement.

Main IdeaSlide18

cult of domesticity

– def. – dominant idea of the 1800s that married women were restricted to housework and child care

no political rights for women – no right to vote

Women’s Roles in the

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abolition movement education movement

temperance movement

Women became socially active in the mid-1800’sSlide20

women became active in trying to abolish slavery

Abolition

movement Slide21

women became active in pushing for more educational opportunities for women

Education

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women became active in trying to prohibit the drinking of alcohol

Temperance

movement Slide23

Significance -

all of these social movements provided women with the opportunity to become active outside of the home, which helped lead to the push for increased rights

Womens

Role in the Mid-1800’sSlide24

Susan B. Anthony

Seneca Falls Convention

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women’s Rights Movement

EmergesSlide25

Became a leading advocate for women’s suffrage in the mid to late 1800s

Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association) in 1890

Susan B. AnthonySlide26

(1848) – women’s right convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and

Lucretia

Mott

Women there drafted the “Declaration of Sentiments” to call for increased women’s rights including the right to vote

Based on the Declaration of Independence

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.”

Seneca Falls Convention Slide27

Attended an anti-slavery convention in Great Britain (1840) where women were discriminated against

Decided to form a women’s rights convention and establish a women’s rights movement

Elizabeth Cady

StantonSlide28

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