Abolitionist Movement

The Movement to End Slavery

• ​Some Americans had opposed slavery since before the country was founded.

  • Benjamin Franklin was the president of the first antislavery society in America.

  • In the 1830s Americans took more organized action to support abolition, or a complete end to slavery.

• ​Religious leaders gave speeches and published pamphlets that moved many Americans to support abolition.

• Other abolitionists referred to the Declaration of Independence.

  • They reminded people that the American Revolution had been fought in the name of liberty.

• ​Antislavery reformers did not always agree on the details.

  • They differed over how much equality they thought African Americans should have.

    • Some believed that African Americans should receive the same treatment as white Americans.

    • Other abolitionists were against full political and social equality.

Multiple Choice

Which term means the complete end to slavery?

• Abolition
• Anti-Slavery
• "Equality For All" Movement
• Temperance

​Spreading the Abolitionist Message

• ​Abolitionists found many ways to further their cause.

  • Some went on speaking tours or wrote pamphlets and newspaper articles.

  • William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.

  • In 1833 he also helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society.

    • Its members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans.

Multiple Choice

Published a newspaper called the "Liberator." Also helped establish the American Anti Slavery Society.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Robert Finley

• David Walker

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Multiple Choice

Identify William Lloyd Garrison

• ​Angelina and Sarah Grimké, two white southern women, were antislavery activists of the 1830s.

• They came from a South Carolina slaveholding family but disagreed with their parents’ support of slavery.

• Angelina Grimké tried to recruit other white southern women in a pamphlet called Appeal to the Christian Women of the South in 1836.

Multiple Choice

These woman and her sister were from a slave-holding family, but became abolitionists

• Sojourner & Harriet Truth

• Harriet & Sarah Tubman

• Angelina & Sarah Grimke

• Harriet & SojournerJacobs

​African American Abolitionist

• ​Many former slaves were active in the antislavery cause.

  • Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery when he was 20 and went on to become one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s.

  • Douglass secretly learned to read and write as a boy, despite a law against it.

  • He was a great public speaker and gave many speeches opposing slavery.

Multiple Choice

Incredible speaker and writer who escaped slavery at 20 years old. Toured around the country and the world speaking out against the institution of slavery. Wrote a best-seller and was friends with Abe Lincoln.

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• Isabella Baumfree

• ​Another former slave, Sojourner Truth, also contributed to the abolitionist cause.

  • With her deep voice and quick wit, Truth became legendary in the antislavery movement for her fiery and dramatic speeches.

Multiple Choice

This woman was a former enslaved person who gave fiery and dramatic anti-slavery speeches.

• Harriet Tubman

• Sarah Grimke

• Angelina Grimke

• Sojourner Truth

​The Underground Railroad

• ​By the 1830s a group had begun helping slaves escape from the South.

  • Free African Americans, former slaves, and a few white abolitionists worked together.

  • They created what became known as the Underground Railroad.

  • The organization was not an actual railroad but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves.

• ​The most famous and daring conductor on the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman.

  • Tubman returned to the South 19 times, successfully leading her family and more than 300 other slaves to freedom.

Multiple Choice

System of transportation of slaves to freedom in the North

• Operation Northern Freedom
• Road to Freedom Route
• Underground Freedom Road
• Underground Railroad

Multiple Choice

Famous conductor - Helped free slaves on the Underground Railroad risking life nearly 20 times.

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Select

Pick the picture of Harriet Tubman

Open Ended

1. 1. What was the abolitionist movement?

2. 2. Name one abolitionist you learned from today's lesson and one way they helped support the movement.