abolitionist

Examples of abolitionist in the following topics:

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • Abolitionists included those who joined the American Anti-Slavery Society or its auxiliary groups in the 1830s and 1840s.
  • After 1849 abolitionists rejected this and demanded it end immediately and everywhere.
  • Eventually, Douglass would publish his own, widely distributed abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
  • In the early 1850s, the American abolitionist movement split into two camps over the issue of the United States Constitution.
  • Analyze the different and, at times, opposed factions within the abolitionist movement

• Abolitionists and the American Ideal

  • Other abolitionists included writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • Most abolitionists tried to raise public support by citing the unlawfulness of slavery.
  • Some abolitionists claimed that slavery was not only criminal, but also a sin.
  • Abolitionists pointed to evidence of the abuses of slavery to strengthen their arguments.
  • Summarize the varied commitments, principles, and strategies of the abolitionist movement

• The Politics of Slavery

  • While most Northerners were indifferent to slavery or opposed it for economic reasons, a growing number of abolitionists viewed slavery as immoral.
  • William Lloyd Garrison of Massachusetts distinguished himself as the leader of the abolitionist movement.
  • Northern teachers suspected of abolitionism were expelled from the South, and abolitionist literature was banned.
  • William Lloyd Garrison led the abolitionist movement in the North and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) in 1833.
  • Discuss the rise of the abolitionist movement and William Lloyd Garrison's role

• From Gradualism to Abolition

  • Nearly all Northern politicians, including Abraham Lincoln, rejected more radical abolitionists.
  • In the early 1850s, the American abolitionist movement split into two camps over the issue of the U.S.
  • Many American abolitionists took an active role in opposing slavery by supporting the Underground Railroad.
  • One such sympathetic abolitionist was William Lloyd Garrison.
  • Eventually, Douglass would publish his own widely distributed abolitionist newspaper, The North Star.

• Women and Democracy

  • Activists began to question women's subservience to men and encouraged a rallying around the abolitionist movement as a way of calling attention to all human rights.
  • Lucretia Mott, an educated woman from Boston, was one of the most powerful advocates of reform and acted as a bridge between the feminist and the abolitionist movements.
  • For example, Pennsylvania Hall was the site in 1838 of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, and as 3,000 white and black women gathered to hear prominent abolitionists such as Maria Weston Chapman, the speakers' voices were drowned out by a mob that had gathered outside.
  • Despite the abuse and ridicule women abolitionists faced, many women's antislavery societies were active before the Civil War.

• The Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • John Brown, a radical abolitionist from the North, led an attack on the federal arsenal Harper's Ferry in 1859.
  • John Brown, a radical abolitionist, instigated an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia in 1859.
  • Lee), but his actions convinced Southerners that their society was under attack by Northern abolitionists, inciting support for secession.
  • Several prominent writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau even praised Brown as a martyr to the abolitionist cause.
  • For Southerners, on the other hand, John Brown's raid was an act of terrorism perpetrated by Northern abolitionists, an act that spurred Southern state legislatures to pass emergency measures to arm and train volunteer militias to prepare for future conflict with Northern aggressors.

• Free Blacks in the South

  • Frederick Douglass, an American slave who escaped to the North, earned his education, and led the abolitionist movement in the United States.
  • John Swett Rock, born free in New Jersey ca. nineteenth century; worked as a teacher, doctor, lawyer, and abolitionist, and was the first black admitted to the U.S.
  • James Forten, born free in Philadelphia; became a wealthy businessman (sail maker) and strong abolitionist.
  • John Mercer Langston, abolitionist, politician, and activist in Ohio, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.; first dean of Howard University Law Department; first president of Virginia State University; and in 1888, the first black elected to U.S.
  • Robert Purvis, born free in Charleston; became an active abolitionist in Philadelphia, supported the Underground Railroad, and used his inherited wealth to create services for African Americans.

• Emerson and Thoreau

  • Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.
  • He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown.

• Racial Prejudice in the Jackson Era

  • Anti-abolitionist riots rocked several cities during the Jackson era, with Jackson himself often applauding the actions.

• Slavery and Liberty

  • The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
  • The escape network was not literally underground nor a railroad, but consisted of meeting points, secret routes, transportation, safe houses, and assistance provided by abolitionist sympathizers.
  • "Conductors" on the railroad came from various backgrounds and included free-born blacks, white abolitionists, former slaves, and Native Americans.
  • However, the severity of this measure led to gross abuses and defeated its purpose; the number of abolitionists increased, the operations of the Underground Railroad became more efficient, and refugees from slavery continued to flee toward the North.