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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | A person who favors the abolition of a practice of slavery. (against slavery) |
| nonviolence | The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change. |
| slave pen | where they would bring the slaves off the boats and dress them and clean them up to sell them |
| religion | The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power (God) |
| emancipation | break away from |
| petition | A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause. |
| gag rule | A regulation or directive that prohibits public discussion of a particular matter, in particular. |
| bleeding Kansas | Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-States and slave-states |
| free states vs slave states | determining whether a new state is going to be a free state or slave state |
| personal liberty act | the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others. |
| fugitive slave act | if a slave escaped, then by law you have to bring the slave back to his/her owner |
| dred scott decision | Dred Scott was a slave who went to court after moving to a free state with his master who died a year after to become a free citizen. but the judge (Roger B. Taney) told him "once a slave always a slave) but the 14th amendment over-turned it |
| Angelina grimke | was an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. |
| Frederick Douglass | an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement |
| William Lloyd garrison | a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| The Liberator | Anti-Slavery newspaper |
| John Brown | an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States |
| Dred Scott | an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision." |
| “Put on the full armor of God” |
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