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African-Americans and The Abolitionist Movement
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
African American Religion
Praise meetings – religious service praising God, usually done by singing
Spiritual – scared song or hymn created by Southern African Americans
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
Free Blacks
335,000 in 1830 Half lived in the
South Register with
authorities White guardians
White Abolitionist Movements
Believed in emancipation – freeing of slaves
William Lloyd Garrison publisher of the Liberator
Held protests
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
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
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
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