Abolition+Reform

Causes of the Abolition Movement



 * Widespread of blacks, some of the abolitionists focused on transporting them back to Africa.
 * Societies were formed to free slaves such as The American Colonization Society.
 * Colonization of the native born African Americans struck antislaveryites with intense digust.
 * Antislaveryites got in touch with British power, William Wilberforce who set free slaves in the West Indies. This set fire to slave owners for the freement of these slaves
 * //The Liberator// was written by William Lloyd Garrison which was an attempt to show people how the abolitionists felt about slavery and of how then wanted to completely demolish slavery.

Primary Sources:
[] William Lloyd Garrison hoped to accomplish a sense of how the abolitionists were willing to act against slavery. By writing this article he demostrated how the abolitionists were against slavery and their feelings of digust towards it. Garrison said that the the abolitionists would not stop until they got rid the the slavery root in America. Also by referring to the self-evident truths to man he hoped to accomplish a sense in people that relates to the freedom every person should have. Garrison's article was heard througout America and his point was self evident.

=Summary﻿= The Abolition Movement was an anti-slavery movement that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries in the U.S. It started when religious groups such as the Quakers and Evangelists started to oppose slavery. They opposed slavery because their religions opposed treatment of people that way. Soon, newspapers, pamphlets, articles, and propaganda are written to persuade the rest of the country toward Abolitionism. Many societies were founded. Some transported slaves back to Africa, while others traveled across the United States preaching anti-slavery. These factors tore apart the North and South, which eventually led to the Civil War.

=﻿Goals/Objectives=
 * To abolish negro slavery in the south
 * to get equal rights for negroes all across the U.S.
 * to guarantee these rights through congress
 * to show the rest of the world what negroes had to go through
 * to better the character and morality of Americans

Tactics and Strategies
__﻿__ __**Summary**__ The success of the movement overall was pretty good. This is because in the beginning the movement started with only a few hundred followers and ended up will thousands. It helped to create a new political party resulting in more support for the key goal of abolishing slavery completely. With this new found support the abolitionists were able to create anti-slavery societies across the North to help support their causes. Based off of this support African Americans now had more freedom and were granted more rights then they had before.
 * Durring the 1830's, the movement took on a new energy and momentum, mounting to the proportions of a crusade
 * 1833, British counterparts to American abolitionists helped to unchain the slaves in the West Indies
 * The religous spirit of the Second Great Awakening helped African Americans to go against slavery itself
 * Christians believed it was sinfull and wrong to enslave citizens
 * The Propaganda pamphlet "American Slavery" created by Theodore Dwight Weld helped abolitionists to see the wrongs of slavery
 * __Uncle Tom's Cabin__ created by Harriet Beecher Stowe,was influinced by the __American Slavery__
 * 1833, American Anti-Slavery Society, Wendell Phillips was considered "abolition's golden trumpet"
 * Fredrick Douglass, created __Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass__, showed of his life and how he escaped to the North
 * Abolitionists looked at politics to try to end the blight of slavery
 * Slaves used religion as a get-away from slavery life
 * __Successes and Failures__**
 * Successes**
 * The movement started with only a few hundred abolitoinist's and by 1840 ended up with thousands organized into local anti-slavery societies across the North
 * Durring the 1840's the Liberty Party formed due to the strong desire of getting slavery out of the picture
 * Slavery ended but war resulted not through repentance and love but through military battle
 * The end to slavery granted African Americans more rights and freedom
 * Failures**
 * By 1840, the movement died out and split into two groups
 * One group was led by Theodore Dwight Weld, but he dropped out of aboliton entirely in the early 1840's due to his loss in faith and hope of reformation
 * The other group had promise in creating a anti-slavery society buth they lost their potential when the ecinomic collapse of 1837 bankrupted them
 * The Northern abolitionists and Southern slave owners couldn't agree on terms of slavery agreement, resulting in war

**Key Figures **
 * William Wilber Force-British parliament member and an evangelical Christian reformer
 * Theodore Dwight Weld- self-educated and appealed to rural audiences of uneducated farmers. He wrote //American Slavery as it is//
 * Arthur and Lewis Tappan- Financial aides to weld and paid for him to attend Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati Ohio.
 * Charles Grandison Finney- Abolitionist Preacher who inspired Weld
 * Lyman Beecher- Presided over the Lane Theological Seminary
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe- Daughter of Lyman Beecher author of //Uncle Tom’s Cabin//
 * Catharine Beecher- Abolitionist Reformer
 * Henry Ward Beecher- Abolitionist Preacher in 1834 was expelled from college for leading an 18 day debate about slavery
 * William Lloyd Garrison- Publisher of //The Liberator//
 * Wendell Phillips- part of the American Anti-Slavery Society refused to eat sugar and were cotton
 * David Walker- Radical Black Abolitionist author of //Appeal to the colored Citizens of the World//
 * Sojourner Truth- A free black women in New York who fought for emancipation and women’s rights
 * Martin Delony- Supported the mass relocation of slaves to Africa
 * Fredrick Douglass- Son of a black slave and a white father escaped bondage in 1838 then learned to read and write looked to politics to end slavery
 * Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy- Said nasty things about catholic women killed in 1837 by and angry mob

Key Events · 1817-American Colonization Society was founded · 1822- The Republic of Liberia was Founded · 1834-Henry Ward Beecher held an 18 day debate about slavery · 1831-New Years day William Lloyd Garrison published militantly anti slavery news paper //The Liberator// · 1833-American Anti Slavery Society was Founded · 1829-David Walker wrote //Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World// · 1838-Frederick Douglass Escapes Slavery · 1845-Frederick Douglass wrote the autobiography //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass// · 1840-Liberty party founded · 1848- Free Soil Party · 1850- Republican Party · 1832- Nullification Crisis of 1832 · 1836-Gag resolution required all anti slavery appeals be tabled without debate · 1844- Gar resolution repealed · 1835-Southern postmasters were instructed to destroy abolitionist material __**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Bibliographies **__

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