Slavery and Abolition

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Slavery and Abolition

• Section 82
• pp. 248-253

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Preview Questions

• What did abolitionists want?
• What was life like under slavery?
• How did Southerners react to the Turner
  Rebellion?

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I. Abolitionists Speak Out

• Abolition
• Movement to outlaw slavery
• Could be violent or peaceful
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Radical abolitionist
• Edited The Liberator
• Wanted immediate emancipation

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I. Abolitionists Speak Out

• Frederick Douglass
• Born into slavery
• Lectured about perils of slavery

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II. Life Under Slavery

• Slave population doubles 1810-1830
• Other Changes
• Born into slavery
• Spoke English

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II. Life Under Slavery

• Urban Slaves
• Work in mills, mines, lumber yards
• Skilled workers (ex Blacksmiths)
• Higher degree of freedom
• Rural Slaves
• Work from dusk until dawn
• House slaves or field slaves

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II. Life Under Slavery

• Turners Rebellion
• Killed 55 whites
• Turner captured and killed
• Increased restrictions violence
• Talk of emancipation

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III. Slave Owners Defend Slavery

• Slave Codes
• Restrict rights of freed African-Americans
• Examples
• Took away legal rights
• Restricted movement and travel
• Couldnt physically attack whites
• Couldnt be educated
• Couldnt assemble in large groups

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III. Slave Owners Defend Slavery

• Owners believe slavery benefits slave
• Happy Slave
• Exposed to Christianity
• Abolitionist debates in Congress stopped by gag
  rule

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Review Questions

• What did abolitionists want?
• What was life like under slavery?
• How did Southerners react to the Turner
  Rebellion?