The document summarizes key events and figures in the abolitionist movement in the United States during the 1820s-1840s. It discusses the growth of antislavery societies in the North, influential black leaders like Prince Hall and Richard Allen, and activist publications like David Walker's "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It also outlines the roles of key white abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, the Tappan brothers, Nat Turner, Lucretia Mott, Theodore Weld, Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Elijah P. Lovejoy. Women's growing involvement in abolitionist societies through figures like Abby Kelley

1. Abolition
• 1820’s – Recolonization – good idea?
over 100 antislavery societies
Most Northern states had abolished slavery

2. Social Uplift
Prince Hall
Richard Allen
James Forten

3. David Walker
• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
• Advised blacks to fight for their freedom

4. William Lloyd Garrison
do not wish to think, or speak, Newspaper (MA)
• 1831 I– The Liberator – or write,
with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I
will not equivocate -- will
excuse -immediate singleI inchnotAND I WILL
emancipationI
will not retreat a
-no $$ for BE HEARD."
slave owners

5. Arthur & Lewis Tappan
• American Anti-Slavery Society
• Left in 1840 (did not want to expand to women’s rights)

6. Nat Turner
Perspective?
• 1831 – Led
slave revolt
• Eclipse?
• 60 whites
killed
• 200 blacks
killed
• Good or
bad?

7. Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society
• Women were forced to
start their own
abolitionist groups
• Lucretia Mott

8. Theodore Weld

9. Abolition
• Angelina Grimke
An Appeal to the Christian
Women of the South
1836

10. Education
• Sarah Grimke
1838 – Letters on the
Equality of the Sexes and
the Condition of Women

11. Frederick Douglassstruggle,
“If there is no
there is no progress. Those who
profess to favor freedom, and
deprecate agitation, are men who
want crops without plowing up the
ground, they want rain without
thunder and lightning.”
• Run away
slave –
became
famous
abolitionist –
worked with
Garrison
• North Star Newspaper

12. Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman

13. Elijah P. Lovejoy

14. Women in Abolition
• 1840
• Abby Kelley
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society