Abolition Movement

Level 1

Vocabulary

Indentured servant: a person who work under contract on average of 7 years and then are allowed to leave servitudeSlave: a person who is property of anotherTriangle trade: system of trade that involved New England, Africa and the West Indies. The middle passage from Africa to the West Indies carried slaves. Slave Codes: defined the status of slaves and powers of the mastersPlantation: a large farm that usually grew cotton or tobaccoAbolition: ending slavery Underground Railroad: a route from the South to the North that allowed slaves to escapeEmancipation: the freeing of slaves

Essential Question

• What were the different avenues taken that encouraged the abolition of slavery?

Slavery and Abolition

• What is slavery? – A way of life that allows for one person to have

total control over another. Slaves must work for little to no pay and will stay a slave for life.

• Morality of slavery:– Slave owners needed it for their plantations. Most

slave owners treated their slaves well, but some didn’t and they were abused. Slave owners defended slavery by stating that the slaves couldn’t live without them because they gave them food and shelter.

Leadership

• Harriet Tubman: abolitionist and escaped slave who led hundreds of slaves to freedom through the “underground railroad” during the 1850’s. The Freedom Trail led north to Canada.

• William Lloyd Garrison: New England abolitionist who wanted separation from the South. Began and edited The Liberator (newspaper) (1831) and was a great speaker.

• Frederick Douglas: escaped slave that became a public speaker for the abolitionist cause; author of his biography explaining the evils of slavery; published the North Star newspaper out of Rochester, NY

• Harriet Beecher Stowe: author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin exposing the evils of slavery

Effects of Abolition

• Brought it into politics as a moral issue

• Sectional differences including slavery led to the Civil War

• Slaves were Emancipated (set free) during the Civil War

Essential Question

• What were the different avenues taken that encouraged the abolition of slavery?