ABOLITION

Goals of the Movement

The main goal of the Abolitionist movement was to abolish, or end slavery.
(pg 423)

William Lloyd Garrison

IMPORTANT EVENTS

• William Lloyd Garrison launches the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper(Prentice Hall, pg 423)
• Garrison leads the Anti-Slavery Society (ushistory.org)
• Fredrick Douglass publishes the North Star (Prentice Hall, pg 424)
• Harriet Tubman rescues over 300 people via the Underground Railroad (Prentice Hall, pg 424)
• The Civil War and slavery ends (ushistory.org)

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Impact of the Movement

The end of slavery made segregation and discrimination evident. This would continue until the civil rights movement in the 1950s. If it was not for the Abolitionist movement, we may still be a slave country.

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