Throughout history and still all over the world there always been groups of people who face oppression and throughout history we see after many different approaches of people fight back it result in failure until one heroic act. Many histories believe for a revolutionary act to happen society must reach a tipping point and reach an insurgent consciousness. Tipping point happens with many attempts of approach in reaching freedom are ineffective. Insurgent consciousness happens when enough people gather together to recognized that the system they seek to overthrow is vulnerable and that new circumstances make success more likely (Davidson, Lytle, 384). During the time of oppression, when the group of minority reaches the tipping point, one
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Ending slavery was not an easy task to accomplish; slaves and abolitionists spoke out on the injustice in society. Fredrick Douglass, a free slave and abolitionist, he wrote a book (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), made speeches, and started a newspaper (The North Star) to tell about his experience in slavery in hope to change the hearts of the Southern that believe in slavery. Even white abolitionist wrote a piece in newspapers, created books, made petitions for the ending of slavery and even created an organization (American Anti- Slavery Society) to shift people judgment in extirpating slavery. Slavery was a system in which the slave states immensely benefitted from and the government made sure it was protected. The government passed the Fugitive law in 1850, which ensure “any black--even free blacks--could be sent south solely on the affidavit of anyone claiming to be his or her owner. The law stripped runaway slaves of such basic legal rights as the right to a jury trial and the right to testify in one's own defense” (Digital History). The government passed another law to help slave state, which was making the pro-slave states stronger. Abolitionist needed to find new way to overcome the system. Around the late 1850 was the tipping point for abolitionists …show more content…
He was a white man during the slavery era that would risk his life to free slaves. Many white abolitionists in that era would never risk their life to revolt just for a slave, but he did. He caused uproar in the society and influenced many others. His violence led to freedom of African American, he was the pathway to the Civil War. He changed the course of slavery by being a white man fighting for slaves and many southerners feared that more than anything. The idea that other might follow in his footsteps was terrifying to them because they realized they might no longer be in the majority against an inter-racial revolt. This show how John Brown revolt had put feared caused them to want to be separated from the Union, which unlimitedly results in the Civil War, led to slaves freedom. Even though John Brown himself did not end slavery his spontaneous act was the final act abolitionists needed to make a revolutionary
Ending slavery was not an easy task to accomplish; slaves and abolitionists spoke out on the injustice in society. Fredrick Douglass, a free slave and abolitionist, he wrote a book (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), made speeches, and started a newspaper (The North Star) to tell about his experience in slavery in hope to change the hearts of the Southern that believe in slavery. Even white abolitionist wrote a piece in newspapers, created books, made petitions for the ending of slavery and even created an organization (American Anti- Slavery Society) to shift people judgment in extirpating slavery. Slavery was a system in which the slave states immensely benefitted from and the government made sure it was protected. The government passed the Fugitive law in 1850, which ensure “any black--even free blacks--could be sent south solely on the affidavit of anyone claiming to be his or her owner. The law stripped runaway slaves of such basic legal rights as the right to a jury trial and the right to testify in one's own defense” (Digital History). The government passed another law to help slave state, which was making the pro-slave states stronger. Abolitionist needed to find new way to overcome the system. Around the late 1850 was the tipping point for abolitionists …show more content…
He was a white man during the slavery era that would risk his life to free slaves. Many white abolitionists in that era would never risk their life to revolt just for a slave, but he did. He caused uproar in the society and influenced many others. His violence led to freedom of African American, he was the pathway to the Civil War. He changed the course of slavery by being a white man fighting for slaves and many southerners feared that more than anything. The idea that other might follow in his footsteps was terrifying to them because they realized they might no longer be in the majority against an inter-racial revolt. This show how John Brown revolt had put feared caused them to want to be separated from the Union, which unlimitedly results in the Civil War, led to slaves freedom. Even though John Brown himself did not end slavery his spontaneous act was the final act abolitionists needed to make a revolutionary