The Abolitionist Movement

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The Abolitionist Movement
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Reform

• The reform movements of the 1820s brought out
  the issue of abolition (the movement to outlaw
  slavery).
• More than 100 anti-slavery groups supported a
  campaign to send slaves back to Africa.
• However, these people considered America their
  home.

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William Lloyd Garrison

• White abolitionist with the most radical views.
• He was hated by white slaveholders.
• He set up a newspaper called The Liberator.
• He believed in immediate emancipation of slaves
  with no payment to slaveholders.

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Garrison
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David Walker

• Free Black man from North Carolina.
• Urged blacks to rise up and use force to take
  their freedom.
• He believed that if blacks did not use force,
  then they deserved their fate.

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Walker
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Frederick Douglass

• He was born a slave in 1817.
• He escaped to New York where he spoke out against
  slavery.
• He wrote his own newspaper titled The North
  Star.
• Wrote a book, gave lectures on slavery, etc.

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Douglass
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Urban vs. Rural slavery

• Rural slaves had a much harder life than did
  urban slaves.
• Rural slaves were kept secluded on plantations
  with cramped quarters.
• Urban slaves had more freedoms and could work in
  mills, and at businesses away from their owner.

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Nat Turners Rebellion

• August 1831, Nat Turner, a slave from Virginia,
  led a rebellion of more than 50 followers.
• His group attacked 4 plantations and killed 70
  whites before they were stopped.
• To retaliate, whites killed over 200 blacks.
• The rebellion led slave owners to tighten their
  control over slaves.
• However, some whites were beginning to press for
  an end to slavery by the 1830s.