The Struggle for Freedom

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The Struggle for Freedom

• The Antislavery Movement
• The Underground Railroad
• Lesson 2

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Slavery
North vs. South
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• Abolitionist
• Someone who joined the movement to abolish, or
  end slavery
• Many whites and free blacks, men and women, and
  Northerners and Southerners were included
• Name one abolitionist.

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Abolitionist

• An antislavery activist
• Someone who joined the Antislavery Movement to
  abolish, or end slavery
• Who are some of the abolitionists in Lesson 2?
• Do you know of any others that are not listed in
  this lesson?

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Some Abolitionists

• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was born into a slave
  family in Maryland and was hired out as a laborer
  at the age five. At the age of 15, after helping
  a runaway slave, Tubman was beaten in the head
  with a lead weight by an overseer. This severe
  beating put her in a coma. It took Tubman months
  to recover and she suffered from blackouts for
  the rest of her life. Despite this added
  challenge to her many others, Tubman managed to
  escape to the North... determined to help her
  family and others escape slavery as well. As the
  best known conductor of the "Underground
  Railroad", Tubman made at least 19 trips to the
  South between 1850 and 1860, leading around 300
  people to freedom.

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Harriet Tubman
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Sarah Angelina Grimke

• After being raised by a slaveholder in
  Charleston, South Carolina, Sarah and Angelina
  moved to Philadelphia in 1819 due to their strong
  opposition to slavery. In 1835, Angelina wrote a
  letter against slavery that William Lloyd
  Garrison published in his abolitionist newspaper,
  The Liberator. A year later, Angelina followed up
  on this success by publishing An Appeal to the
  Christian Women of the South (1836).

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison, the American anti-slavery
leader, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts,
U.S.A., on the 10th of December 1805. He wrote
for The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper.
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You will be doing an assignment with various
members of the antislavery movement. You will
create trading cards (similar to baseball cards)
depicting a single member of the A.M. Here is a
list of possible abolitionists you may choose
from.
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• Sarah Grimke
• Angelina Grimke
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Abraham Lincoln
• Dred Scott
• Horace Greeley
• Florence Nightingale
• Julia Ward Howe

• Clara Barton
• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Nat Turner
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth

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You must work alone. However, more than one
person might have the same abolitionist.

• You may use the internet, your book, the books
  supplied at the front of the room. You will sign
  up for an individual abolitionist. First come,
  first serve!

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Good luck!