THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING

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THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING THE CRUSADE AGAINST
SLAVERY
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1. Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian
Women of the South (1836)

• With her sister Sarah, a passionate Christian,
  feminist, and abolitionist

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2. Frederick Douglass, The Church Prejudice
(1841)

• Escaped Slave,
• Christian,
• Leading Abolitionist
• Editor, writer, political leader

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3. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Letter to Frederick
Douglass (1851)

• Member of one of the the leading Evangelical
  families (father is LYMAN BEECHER brother is
  HENRY BEECHER)
• Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin

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4. William Lloyd Garrison, Address on Abolition
(1854)

• Editor of The Liberator, the most flamboyant and
  incendiary anti-Slavery newspaper

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5. B. M. Palmer, The South Her Peril Duty
(1860)

• Presbyterian preacher
• Slavery is actually benevolent
• And approved of by God!

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6. Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic
(1861)

• New Yorker
• Social Activist Evangelical

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7. George Miles, God Save the South (1861)

• Novelist, playwright, poet

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8. Abraham Lincoln, Thoughts on Gods Will
(1861, 1862)
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9. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural (1865)