American Pageant Ch. 16

Abolitionist tract advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, a Southern-born free black.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Liberator

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

• South Carolina Exposition

People who wanted to end slavery in the us

Minority in the north; used fierce arguments , helping slaves escape, and violence

• The Liberator

• Black Belt

• abolitionists

• Underground Railroad

Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves.

• The Liberator

• The North Star

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves- it emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west

• planter aristocracy

• Black Belt

• Amistad

• Mason-Dixon Line

American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. Wrote a moving autobiography and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglas

Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves.

• American Anti-Slavery Society

• American Colonization Society

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Liberia

Sisters from Charleston who wrote and lectured vigorously on reform causes such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and the abolitionist movement.

• Sojourner Truth

• Grimke

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Very small number of families that owned more than 100 slaves each- wealthy plantation owners that ran huge plantations- created a large gap between upper and lower class.

• mountain whites

• small farm owner

• free white

• planter aristocracy

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin; an abolitionist fictional story explaining the terrors of slavery.

• Grimke sisters

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Lucretia Mott

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women

• Grimke Sisters

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Lucretia Mott