ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT

LIFE UNDER SLAVERY

• Had been an American institution since colonial times
• Expanded in the South in the early 1800s with the growth of cotton
• By 1830 historians estimate that 2 million Africans and African Ameircans were held as slaves
• Most labored from dusk to dawn at backbreaking work, in the cotton fields
• Overseers maintained brutal work routines

CRUEL TREATMENT

• Overseers punished enslaved people physically and mentally
• Families were usually torn apart geographically
• Most were illiterate
• Most never reunited with separated family members
• Many tried to escape

RESISTING SLAVERY

• Many tried to escape using the underground railroad
• Some decided to fight
• Historians think 200 significant slave revolts took place in 1800s
• Denmark Vesey was a freedman that planned large attack
• Nat Turner led rebellion in Virginia

LIVES OF FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS

• Northern states had gradually outlawed slavery by the 1840s
• Free African Americans supported from racial discrimination
• Many free African Americans worked to establish churches and schools
• Many including David Walker worked to rid the US of slavery

ABOLITION MOVEMENT

• 1807 bringing new slaves to US was banned
• Slavery was an established institution in the South
• In the early 1800s Americans that opposed slavery began to speak out
• Abolitionist began to spread the word to fight against slavery
• William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass are a few

WILLIAM lLOYD GARRISON

• Printer from Massachusetts
• Published anti slavery newspaper called the Liberator
• Was consideded radical abolitionist Becuase he wanted immediate emancipation
• Implemented moral suasion by printing anti slavery pamphlets
• Insisted that owing slaves was counter to most Americans religious beliefs

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Born into slavery