Early Abolition
Radical Abolition
Black Abolitionists
- 1817- American Colonization Society
- It was a way for free blacks to immigrate back to Africa to a place called Liberia.
- It started as a way to keep slavery safe because southerners saw free blacks as a danger to their way of life.
- Mostly run by Quakers and Evangelicals who supported abolition and southerners who wanted free blacks gone.
Radical Abolition
- 1831- William Lloyd Garrison
- He was Abolition activist, journalist, and social reformer in his time.
- Best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.
- Promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves
- Later became a advocate for the Women's Suffrage Movement.
- Wendell Phillips
- He was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and a lawyer.
- Frequently made speeches for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
- Known as the "Abolition's Golden Trumpet" because of his oral ability.
- Even boycotted products that involved slave labor.
Black Abolitionists
- David Walker
- He was free because his mother was free, but his father was still a slave.
- He was outspoken abolition activist.
- In 1829, he published a pamphlet called An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. And Many of the views that he wrote about were seen as extreme.
- Frederick Douglas
- The most well known of the black abolitionists.
- He escaped from slavery in Maryland, and became a national leader in the abolition movement.
- He eventually gave advice to presidents like Lincoln because he was so respected.
Pro-Slavery Argument
- The south was a major part of the argument to keep slavery because slaves were very important to their economy at the time.
- Others like John C. Calhoun saw slavery as a good thing instead of evil.
- For example, some people believed that their must be a lower class for the upper class to depend upon.
- There were others believed that it was required according to their religion. Many believed it was justified in the Bible.
- It was also believed that it was required for a successful nation because all of the ancient civilizations used slavery.