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The Movement to End Slavery
Section 4
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The Movement to End Slavery
The Big Idea
In the mid-1800s, debate over slavery increased as abolitionists organized to challenge slavery in the United States.
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Americans Oppose Slavery
Main Idea 1:Americans from a variety of backgrounds
actively opposed slavery. Some believed African Americans should have the
same treatment as white Americans, while others were opposed to full equality
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Americans Oppose Slavery
The reform spirit of the early 1800s also influenced the many abolitionists
Some Americans opposed slavery before the country was even founded.
Americans took more organized action supporting abolition, or the complete end to slavery, in the 1830s.
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Americans Oppose Slavery The American Colonization Society was founded
in 1817 to establish a colony of freed slaves in Africa. Liberia was founded on the west coast of Africa
in 1822. Liberia is Latin for
“place of freedom”
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Americans Oppose Slavery
The resettlement idea … did not halt the growth of slavery Was not liked by African Americans because they did
not want to go to Africa
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Americans Oppose Slavery
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds an antislavery newspaper, The Liberator He called for an immediate
end to slavery His paper gathered a large following in the North
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Americans Oppose Slavery
He also helped found the American Anti-slavery Society. They wanted the immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans.
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Americans Oppose Slavery
• Angelina and Sarah Grimké,two white southern women, were activists who wrote antislavery works, including American Slavery As It Is.
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Americans Oppose Slavery
Many free African Americans were also a part of the abolitionist movement
Samuel Cornish and John Russworm started the first African American newspaper called Freedoms Journal
Samuel Conrish John Russworm
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Americans Oppose Slavery
Frederick Douglass: was born a slave taught himself to read and
write ran away from his slave
holder when he was young became an outspoken
and famous abolitionist.
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Americans Oppose Slavery
Frederick Douglass He was a powerful speaker
Spoke in America, London, & the West Indies
He edited the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star
He spoke about freedom and equality for African Americans
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Americans Oppose Slavery
Sojourner Truth She was born a slave with the
name Isabella Bumfree. She fled to freedom when NY
outlawed slavery. She later traveled around the
country preaching the truth about slavery and women’s rights.
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The Underground Railroad
Main Idea 2:Abolitionists organized the Underground
Railroad to help enslaved Africans escape.
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The Underground Railroad
By the 1830s a loosely organized group had begun helping slaves escape from the South.
Abolitionists created the Underground Railroad: a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves.
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad: helped slaves escape to freedom was a network of safe houses from the south to the
North was supposed to be
a secret encouraged slaves to
follow the North Star tofreedom as they traveled
at night.
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad developed a unique vocabulary:
Passengers = the run away slaves
Stations = barns, attics, church basements, or other places of rest for run-away slaves
Conductors = the white and African American guides who helped the run-away passengers
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The Underground Railroad
Many runaways went to the North and sometimes even to Canada because they feared having to go back to slavery if captured in the northern part of America.
The Underground Railroad gave great hope to slaves
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The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman A woman who escaped slavery She helped over 300 slaves
escape to freedom. She is one of the most famous
conductors of the Underground Railroad
Rewards were offered for her death by southerners.
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Opposition to Ending Slavery
Main Idea 3: Despite efforts of abolitionists, many
Americans remained opposed to ending slavery.
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Opposition to Ending Slavery
Many white northerners agreed with the South and supported slavery.
Thought that ending slavery would take jobs from white workers