A movement ignites an explosive
era
 Began
as an evangelical
Christian movement.
 Garrison founded the
newspaper: “ The
Liberator” in 1831.
 Demanded the
immediate abolition of
slavery without
compensation to
slaveholders.
 “I
will not retreat a
single inch—AND I
WILL BE HEARD.”
Garrison
 Assailed the
Constitution as “a
covenant with death
and an agreement
with Hell.”
 Prong
I: Appeal to
religious Americans.
• “Bible Against
Slavery”
• “American Slavery as
it is. Testimony of 1000
witnesses”.
• Printing
advancements?
 Prong
II: help liberate
African Americans
from Slavery.
• The Underground
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Railroad.
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
1000 freed annually
Fugitive Slave Law
 10%
Abolitionist
 20% sympathetic to
Abolitionist cause
 Segregated
abolitionist meeting
 Most not in favor?
 Why?
 Result?
 Elijah Lovejoy and
others.
 Prong
III: appeal to
state and national
legislators.
• Petitions with 500,000
signatures were
common.
• Aboltionist groups
grew to 2000 from 200.
• Henry David Thoreau
 Andrew
Jackson
ordered the US
Congress to prohibit
Abolitionist mail in
1838.
 Georgia's legislature
sponsored a bill with
a $5000.00 reward to
anyone who would
kindap Garrison!
 Congress
agreed in
1844 not to talk about
Slavery.
 Why?
 Until…1849
 David Wilmot
 Life
and times
 Break with Garrison
over “union with
slaveholders”
 Can’t abandon
slaves.
 Profile in Courage