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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
• Author of an abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). • Portrayed the separation of slave families by auction *persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
• Leading radical abolitionist, journalist and social reformer • Abolitionist newspaper-- The Liberator • burned the Constitution b/c it protected slavery • 1 of the founders of the Amer. Anti-Slavery Society. * Abolitionist views eventually enacted through addition of 13 Amendment, banning slavery |
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Nat Turner |
• Slave in VA who started a slave rebellion in 1831 believing he was receiving signs from God • Resulted in 55 dead white people * His rebellion was the largest sign of black resistance to slavery in America and led the state legislature of VA to a policy that said no one could question slavery. |
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Sojourner Truth |
• American abolitionist and feminist. • Born into slavery but free when outlawed in NY in 1827 • renowned for stirring oratory • joined the campaign for female suffrage. • When slavery was ended, she continued to fight for equality by protesting segregation laws * leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women. Abolitionist/fem views eventually enacted through 2 new amendments, womens right to vote and banning slavery. |
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Frederick Douglass |
• Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who • fought to end slavery through political action • anti-slavery newspaper: the North Star * Abolitionist views eventually enacted through addition of 13 Amendment, banning slavery Douglass served as an example to all who doubted the ability of blacks to function as free citizens. |
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Elijah P. Lovejoy |
• Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr • editor of an antislavery periodical, The Observer. • Violent opposition from slaveholders in 1836 forced him to move his presses from Missouri to Illinois, where he established the Alton Observer. * his death stimulated the growth of abolitionist movement. |
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Cotton Kingdom |
• Term for the ante-bellum South/Black Belt that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product=cotton * It depended on slavery and formed the geographic core of the Confederate States of America. |
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American Anti-Slavery Society |
• Organization in opposition to slavery est. 1833 • Theodore Weld, Arthur Tappan, and Lewis Tappan ->Garrison * most prominent abolitionist organizations in the US during the early nineteenth century. |
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Lane Rebels |
• The group of theology students, led by Theodore Dwight Weld, who were expelled from their seminary for the abolitionist activity and later became leading preachers of the anti-slavery gospel * they helped lead and continue the preaching of anti-slavery ideas. |
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Gag Resolution |
• Strict rule passed by pro-southern Congressmen in 1836 to table all discussion of slavery w/o debate in the HoR • The resolution gradually gained widespread resentment and was repealed about ten years later |
