Moral Suasion

fredrick Douglass
Stowe
- Convincing America
- Growing Divisions

Harriet Beacher

Fredrick Douglass
Harriet lived in Ohio
- becomes international sensation
- sold large amounts
- converted into other media: play
- later turned into movie
Free the slave movement went ramped in the 1830s
Hinder:
- racial prejudice
- to end this
- break down barriers to racial equality
- bunch of people liked how it was
- Civil
- Political
- Social
- regional interconnectedness
Questions:
- Role / Rights of Blacks
- How best to end slavery

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Garrison
- non-violent activism
- focus on institutions
- north should separate from the south
- US would have no connection to slavery
- Blamed churches
- burned constitutions
- no compromises
- No union with slave holders
- saw as anti-church and anti-government
- People started to break away from other anti-slavery society and would
form their own groups in the support of him
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SLAVERYS DEMISE
2nd Anti-Slavery Movement
(1830 - 1861)
Major Approaches
- Moral suasion
- Political Anti- Slavery
- Direct Action
- Black Anti - Slavery Action
Lundi, Novembre 30th

Growing number of people who were willing to compromise on slavery

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Limiting slavery from expanding to western territories

Liberty Party (1840)
- abolitionists
Republican Party (1854)
- Prevent Expansion
Democrats
Whigs
These parties highlight compromise people were able to make
Direct interest was freeing slaves
- Outside of law
- Have to use violence would do so to achieve goal
Protecting Free and Fugitive Slaves
Preventing Free slaves from being captured and sold back into slavery
Help Slaves escape
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POLITICAL ANTI- SLAVERY

Arthur and Lewis Tappin

Major Groups/Leaders
Agenda

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Like

Underground Railroad
-development
-operation
DIRECT ACTION
AND ANTI-SLAVERY
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
- Challenge to Moral Suasion, Political Anti-Slavery
- Forms of Direct Action

John Brown Prefer Offense

- attack pro-slave advocates
- incite slave rebellions
- wanted to provide weapons to slaves
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Not an actual underground railroad

Used the new-fangled thing to put behind their movement
SECERT: dont know everything about it
Small groups in particular areas
Large Organized groups
Ways in which slaves connected to Railroad:
- Word of mouth
- Poss to be turned in
- Word getting out to wrong people

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Rescue missions
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
(Harriet Tubman w/ Fugitive Slaves)

People would pay to get their friends and relatives out of slavery

Like Slave catchers would advertise that they can get your friends out
of slavery
- There were alt. to Railroad
- Slaves that escaped sometimes stayed in south
- were able to just do it on their own
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Abolition vs anti-expansion
- anti ex. meant lack of commitment to abolitionists
- full equality
- **NONVIOLENCE
INSERT SLDIE
Supreme court decision

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Personal Liberty Laws (1842)

Blacks & the White - Led Movement
A separate movement

anti kidnapping
rules provision of slave act 1793 un constitutional
- official in one state asks official to help in another state (UNCONSTI)
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