APUSH

Person 3 Details of Person’s View on Slavery
Actions Person Took to
Support Viewpoint

 Three Beliefs…
 Believed slavery should be in the South to preserve the
Union
 Believed that African Americans enjoyed a much better lifestyle than did workers in England and Africa
 Believed that African Americans were inferior to whites

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Wrote a book Slavery in the United States

 Three Beliefs…
 Believed the Northern and British working classes would have been better off under a system of slavery than in the
“free society”
 Believed conditions for workers in the North were worse than conditions for slaves
 Believed slaves were inferior

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Wrote the following pamphlets Slavery Justified and The
Failure of Free Society
 Wrote a book Sociology for the South

 Three Beliefs…
 Criticized slavery not because it was bad for African
Americans but because it hurt whites
 Believed that if African Americans stayed in the United
States, they should have no rights and should be completely segregated from whites
 Believed that whites who were not wealthy enough to buy slaves, could not succeed financially

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Wrote a book The Impending Crisis of the South: How to
Meet It
 Wrote a letter Death to Slavery! Down with the Slaveholders!
Away with the Negroes!

 Three Beliefs…
 Believed the states, NOT Congress, had the right to determine whether slavery should be allowed in a particular state
 Believed slavery is a domestic institution
 Believed slavery is a “positive good” – it is impossible for whites and African Americans to exist together in the same community

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Attempted to rally all Southern congressmen to go against any anti-slavery laws
 When he died in 1850, his last words were said to be,
“The South! The poor South!

 Three Beliefs…
 Believed slavery was morally wrong
 Believed whatever is right for a man to do is morally right for a woman to do
 Believed that southern women needed to stop slavery

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Moved to the North
 Became active in the abolitionist movement
 Wrote pamphlets in 1836
 Freed slaves that their mother had given them
 Became traveling lecturers of the American Anti-Slavery
Society

 Three Beliefs…
 Strong belief in personal freedom
 Against allowing slavery to expand into new western territories
 Believed in preserving the Union

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Wanted to preserve the Union so he promised not to interfere with slavery in the South

 Three Beliefs…
 She was against slavery
 She escaped from slavery using the Underground Railroad
 Wanted to help other slaves to freedom by becoming a conductor of the Underground Railroad

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Became a conductor of the Underground Railroad and helped over 300 slaves to freedom

 Three Beliefs…
 Demanded an immediate, no-compromise end to slavery
 Believed everyone who tolerated slavery was to blame
 Believed the Northern states should secede from the Union

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Published the newspaper The Liberator
 Helped to lead a successful movement to abolish slavery
 Helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society

 Three Beliefs…
 Opposed slavery
 Believed slavery is wicked
 Urged President Lincoln to allow former slaves to fight for the North

 Actions taken to support his viewpoint…
 Leading abolitionist
 Lectured on the evils of slavery
 Gave his lecture fees to aid runaway slaves
 Wrote his autobiography, which described slavery from a slave’s point of view
 Published his own anti-slavery newspaper, the North Star