The

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The
Underground Railroad
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Abolitionists and Slavery
Abolition movement to end slavery
Northern States Outlawed
Banning the importation of African Slaves
Frederick Douglass
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Battle for Freedom

• David Walker urging slaves to revolt
• The Appeal
• Mysterious Death
• William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist
• The Liberator
• Almost hanged, but mayor stepped in

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Eyewitnesses to Slavery
Frederick Douglass - Lecturer for the MA
Anti-Slavery Society - Published
Autobiography in 1845 - Left to speak in Britain
and Ireland - The North Star
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The Underground Railroad
Aboveground series of escape routes from the
South to the North Traveled on foot, wagons,
boats, and trains Henry Browns Storyto
Philadelphia This side up with
care. Traveled by night and stayed at stations
Stables, attics, cellars Frederick Douglass
hid up to 11 slaves.
Follow
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Hillforest Mansion Aurora, Indiana (40 miles
south of Liberty)
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Harriet Tubman
Conductor Born into slavery Fractured by a
two-pound weight Went to Pennsylvania Carried a
tiny pistol 40,000 for her capture Helped 300
slaves
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Seneca Falls
Convention Suffrage Susan B. Anthony
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in
  London in 1840
• Not allowed in
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Could not vote, sit on juries, or hold public
  office
• Treated as children

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Seneca Falls Convention

• Held in NY on July 19-20, 1848
• 300 participants (Frederick Douglass)
• Declaration of Independence
• Slim Margin suffrage
• Political Power

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Continuing Call for Rights

• New York Herald
• have a purse of their own
• Property and wages
• Mississippi in 1839
• New York

Susan B. Anthony
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Concluding Question

• Why do you think that many of the people who
  fought for abolition also fought for womens
  rights?