The Movement to End
Slavery
13.4
Abolition
Movement to end slavery on moral
grounds
Some called for immediate
emancipation (freedom), others for
gradual.
Abolitionists had different views
– Some supported freedom, but not equality
for Blacks
By 1833 & 1848, Both Britain &
France had outlawed Slavery
Colonization Movement
Short lived
movement to send
free-blacks to Africa
Many blacks
rejected it, feeling
that they should
have a share in
America’s wealth.
Northern Abolitionists
Anti-Slavery speeches,
newspapers, & literature
William Lloyd Garrison:
founder of the American
Anti-Slavery Society,
– Published the Liberator
– Allowed Women a major
role = caused a split
Abby Kelley Foster
Grimké Sisters
2 White southern abolitionists who wrote
famous essays against slavery
African American Voices
Most powerful
Anti-Slavery
activists
Many former
slaves wrote
narratives &
went on
speaking tours.
Frederick Douglass
Most famous Black
Abolitionist
Wrote 4
autobiographies,
became world
renown
The North Star
The Underground Railroad
Network of individuals
& safe-houses that
helped runaway slaves
escape to free Canada.
Harriet Tubman :most
famous “conductor,”
helped up to 300
slaves escape
Slavery had many Supporters
Slaves were seen as property, not
people
The Bible & ancient Greece/Rome has
many examples of slavery
Many northerners supported it for
racist & economic reasons
Mobs often attacked
abolitionists
Southern writer
George Fitzhugh
– slavery was
necessary for the
black race
– they lived better than
northern wageearners