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Glencoe Chp.14 Sec 2

The Abolitionists

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abolitionist a person who stongely favors doing away with slavery
Underground Railroad a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
The first effort to end slavery was to free the blacks and send them back to Africa or the Caribbean.
Many Americans came to believe that slavery was wrong due to the religious revival and reform in the early and mid 1800s.
12,000 to 20,000 slaves were freed and sent to Liberia, off the coast of Africa, by the American Colonization Society for black's freedom.
Many slave families had lived in America for generations and did not want to go back to Africa, they just wanted to be free in America.
William Lloyd Garrison writer of the "Liberator", an anti-slavery newspaper.
Abolitionist movement grew rapidly led by William Lloyd Garrison.
New England Anti-slavery Society and the American Anti-slavery Society were started in the early 1830s.
Sarah and Angelina Grimke were daughters of wealthy slave owning families, but were some of the first women to speak out against slavery.
Frederick Douglass Slave that taught himself to read and write, escaped from slavery, and became a well known abolistionist.
North Star newspaper written by Frederick Douglass that was against slavery.
Sojourner Truth black slave woman that worked for women's rights and was an abolitionist
Runaway slaves rested in barns, attics, basements,and church basements during the day. At night they traveled routes called the Underground Railroad.
Famous "condutor" of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman.
Slave holders offered a large reward for the death or capturing of Harriet Tubman.
Abolitionist were a small population of the North.
Some Northerners feared that freed slaves would move to the north and take their jobs.
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