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African-Americans and The Abolitionist Movement
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Slave Family
Parents not legally married
Children did not work the fields until the age of 8
Families gathered to listen to folk songs and traditional African stories
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African American Religion
Praise meetings – religious service praising God, usually done by singing
Spiritual – scared song or hymn created by Southern African Americans
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Slave Rebellions
Slaves would gather, march in the street, and refuse to do work
Nat Turner’s Rebellion – Kill every white person they could see in Virginia
“Slave codes” – Not allow slaves to meet in big groups and severe punishment for talk of rebellion
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Free Blacks
335,000 in 1830 Half lived in the
South Register with
authorities White guardians
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White Abolitionist Movements
Believed in emancipation – freeing of slaves
William Lloyd Garrison publisher of the Liberator
Held protests
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Frederick Douglass
Former slave turned abolitionist
Publisher of the North Star – Spoke out against slavery
Later helped raise African American regiments during the Civil War
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Underground Railroad
Network of passages from slave states to free states/Canada for runaway slaves
“Conductors” led people to safety
Harriet Tubman “Black Moses” 19 journeys and led
over 300 slaves to freedom
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Response to Abolition
Growth of racism Blacks are inferior Blacks would take
white jobs
Gag Rule – banning the discussion of abolition in the House of Representatives
Split between North and South