Anti-Slavery Movement

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Anti-Slavery Movement
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Pro-Slavery Argument

• Southerners recognized the inconsistency with the
  institution of slavery and the Constitution, but
  they dismissed this inconsistency by stating that
  slavery was a NECESSARY EVIL.
• Many Southerners felt that slavery would merely
  fade away.
• Slaves were better off than wage-slave of the
  North. They were provided with food, clothing,
  and shelter.
• Slaves were not capable of existing on their own.
  They were like little children. They were not
  smart enough to survive without the white mans
  help.
• Slavery was a way of RACIAL CONTROL.
• If slaves were let go, they would rise up against
  their former masters. Example Nat Turners
  Rebellion (1831).

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ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT

• ABOLITIONISTS-THOSE WHO BELIEVED THAT SLAVERY WAS
  A SIN AND SHOULD END NOW

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Why End Slavery?

• Religious belief slavery was a sin
• U.S. economy switch from agriculture to
  industrialization
• Free labor economy of the north
• How could a nation whose Constitution states that
  All men are created equal justify having a
  large population Enslaved?
• Europe was doing away with slavery
• 1808 Britain and the U.S. had banned the
  international slave trade.
• 1833 Britain abolished slavery in its West
  Indian colonies
• 1848 France abolished slavery

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AMERICAN COLONIZATION society

• PROPOSED SENDING FREED BLACKS / EMANCIPATED
  SLAVES TO LIBERIA
• EST. 1822
• DOES NOT CALL FOR END TO SLAVERY
• MOST BLACKS OPPOSE IDEA- MOST WERE BORN IN AMERICA

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AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

• FOUNDER WM. L. GARRISON-DESIRES IMMEDIATE NO
  COMPROMISE END TO SLAVERY (ABOLITIONIST)
• USED LECTURES, PAMPHLETS, PUBLISH NEWSPAPERS,
  PETITIONS TO CONGRESS-VERY VOCAL AND SKILLED AT
  REACHING THE MASSES

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• BLACK ACTIVISTS-
• Former slaves were active in the anti-slavery
  movement.
• Went on speaking tours and gained the audiences
  attention by giving inspirational speeches and
  telling personal stories about life as a slave.

Fredrick Douglas Sojourner Truth
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Abolitionists

• JOHN BROWN - New England strike terror in the
  hearts of the pro-slavery people.
• CHARLES SUMNER - MA criticized pro-slavery
  people in Kansas publicly insulted S.C. Senator
  Andrew Butler. Butlers relative responds with a
  cane.

John Brown Charles Sumner
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WOMEN PLAY CRUCIAL ROLE IN MOVEMENT

• EARLY GROUPS SEE MOVT AS RELIGIOUS CRUSADE
• SLAVERY IS A SIN
• EVOLVES INTO EQUAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FOR BLACKS AND
  WOMEN
• GRIMKE SISTERS-from the south, outspoken
  advocates for abolition

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

• SECRET NETWORK OF ROUTES AIDING RUNAWAY SLAVES TO
  REACH NORTH AND CANADA TO FREEDOM
• HARRIET TUBMAN (MOSES) HELPS 300 ESCAPE.
• SMALL ACTUALLY REACH FREEDOM