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Efforts of abolitionist 2
1. STUDENTS WOULD LIKE TO ABOLISH
THE PRACTICE OF AFTER SCHOOL
DETENTION.
SOME AMERICANS WOULD LIKE TO
ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY.
• What does the word abolish
mean?
to do away with; put an
end to
2. DRILL
•What do you think an
abolitionist is?
individuals who tried to
end slavery
3. OBJECTIVE
•Students will be able to
examine the efforts of a few
abolitionist in order to
evaluate their effectiveness
in abolishing slavery.
5. FREDERICK DOUGLASS:
FEBRUARY 17, 1818 – FEBRUARY 20, 1895)
• Frederick Douglass was born into
slavery. Douglass eventually
escaped slavery and worked with
William Lloyd Garrison.
6. • He had learned to read and write
while in captivity so he was able to use
those skills to help show how slavery
was not like the southerners made it
sound.
7. • He also worked with
the Anti-Slavery
Society. Frederick
Douglass wrote for
the Liberator. He
wrote articles and
made speeches
against slavery.
8. • He also published
and autobiography,
The Life of Frederick
Douglass, an
American Slave. The
autobiography was
published in 1845.
9. He moved to Rochester, New York, and
began publishing a newspaper, the North
Star.
10. • Douglass continued
to fight for the
freedom of slaves.
Frederick Douglass
died in 1882 after a
long illness. His
voice continued to
be heard long after
his death.
11. One of the most important Black Americans in
the history of the country was Frederick
Douglass.
13. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a woman who
was born in Connecticut and grew up in a
large religious family.
14. In Cincinnati she met fugitive slaves and she learned
about the horrors of slavery in the south. She
wanted to prove that slavery was wrong.
15. To prove that slavery was wrong, she published a
book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book was
about an old slave named Tom.
16. In the book Tom was separated from his wife and
bought and sold three times, his last owner beat him
to death. The book was published in 1852.
17. This book had a very high influence toward antislavery.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin made southerners very mad but
the northerners liked the book. Over 2 million copies
were sold in just ten years.
19. The American Anti-slavery Society was founded by William
Lloyd Garrison and his followers in 1833. Garrison not only
believed in equality for African Americans but also for
equality of women.
20. • Garrison and the
American Anti-
slavery Society were
writing pamphlets.
They also sent
petitions to congress
asking them to end
government support
of slavery.
21. • One of the main
goals of the
American Anti-
slavery Society was
to spread anti-
slavery written
works throughout
the north and
Midwest.
23. The American Anti-slavery Society not only
played a huge roll in the emancipation of
slaves but gaining rights for them to.
24. WILLIAM LLOYD
GARRISON
DECEMBER 13,1805 - MAY 24,1879
25. When William was 25 he joined the Abolition
movement, and for a short time he became
involves in the American Colonization Society.
26. • This group believed
that free blacks should
immigrate to an area
on the west coast of
Africa. But then
around 1829-1830
William rejected
colonization,
apologizing for his
error.
27. THEN IN 1831, WILLIAM RETURNED TO NEW ENGLAND
AND CREATED A WEEKLY ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPER
CALLED "THE LIBERATOR".
28. HE PUBLISHED WEEKLY ISSUES IN BOSTON FOR 35
YEARS. HE HAD ABOUT 3,000 SUBSCRIBERS MOST OF
WHOM WERE AFRICAN AMERICANS.
29. Garrison was facing fierce resistance for his belief
about the slaves. Garrison believed that all slaves
should be emancipated as quickly as possible.
30. • The legislature from South Carolina
offered a reward of $1,500(about
$25,000 today) to those who identified
the distributors of the paper. The
Liberator ran from January 1st 1831 to
January 1st 1866.
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