the abolition movement in the us

THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT IN THE US

GROWING ABOLITION MOVEMENT

• By the 1830s, opposition to slavery is beginning to spread• People publish

papers and newsletters dedicated to ending slavery

GRADUALISM, ABOLITIONISM AND COLONIZATION

• By 1805, most Northern states had passed laws to gradually end slavery

• Gradualism: eventual freeing of slaves, did not always apply to adult slaves

• Abolition: IMMEDIATE freeing of slaves

• Colonization: Freeing slaves and sending them to the free colony of LIBERIA in Africa

WHERE DOES THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT COME FROM?

• Great Awakening declares slavery is a sin and is evil, those who have slaves should free them and repent• Slaves should be

freed immediately

ABOLITIONISTS

• William Lloyd Garrison: Publishes The Liberator in 1831 (abolitionist newspaper)

- 75% of its readers were free black citizens

• Forms American Anti-Slavery Society• Wants to use Moral Persuasion to end slavery• In Boston, he was dragged through the streets and

nearly killed. A bounty of $4000 was placed on his head. • In 1854, he publicly burned a copy of the Constitution

because it permitted slavery. • He called for the north to secede from the Union to

sever the ties with the slaveholding south.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS• After Douglass escaped, he

wanted to promote freedom for all slaves.

• He published a newspaper called The North Star.

• Douglass's goals were to "abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen."

REACTIONS TO THE MOVEMENT

North• Many disliked slavery,

but also disliked the abolition movement

• Many feared a war

• Mobs often attacked abolitionists

South• Slave revolts

• Uproar by white Southerners

• Many refused to deliver Abolitionist newspapers