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Abolitionists
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slavery = evil. became powerful movement against slavery during antebellum years of Am. catalyst for Civil War
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Gabriel Processer
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1800- led 1,000 slaves in a revolt to capture Richmond. failed. processor and 34 foloowers hanged. displayed for 2 weeks
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rebel
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Am Colonization Society 1816
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emanciaption of slaves and their settlement in Liberia. early antislavery movement
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Liberia
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Denmark Vesey
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1822. Vesy and other slaves planned a slave revolt in S. Carolina. supposed to be 9,000 ppl, but someone informed the white ppl. Vesy and other peeps exectuted
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rebel
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Theodore Parker
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MA clergyman opposed slavery. preached and wrote pamphlets against slavery
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religious
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Sojourner Truth
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runaway slave who lived in NY. abolitionist and eloquent speaker for black emancipation and women's rights
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Fredrick Douglass
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leading black abolitionist and ex-slave. orator and humanitarian.
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William LLyod Garrison
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most influential white abolitionist. started a group of radical abolitionists through the publication of his magazine , "The Liberator" 1831
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white...The Liberator
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Nat Turner's Rebellion 1831
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Turner= black slave. heard angels to be like Moses. led a slave revolt in VA. 60 whites die. revolt blamed on "The Liberator" ->banishment of anti-slavery propaganda from the South
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Moses
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Theodore D. Weld
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leading white abolitionist. preached against slavery. 1831 wrote "Slavery as it is" - pamphlet that exposed the evils of slavery
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white...pamphlet
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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abolitionist. influential novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852. national attention b/c of its attack on the sys of slavery. sold 300,000 copies in 1st year. intensified the unrest b/t North and South b4 Civil War
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Uncle Tom
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The Peculiar Institution
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nickname the North gave to Slavery
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King Cotton
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economy of the South centered around production of cotton. and southern belief during the Civil War that England would support the southerners b/c they needed cotton
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South
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Mountain Whites
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"poor white trash" or "hillbillies" of the South. owned no slaves, did not profit from slavery
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Liberty PArty
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Political party organized by Abolitionists in NY in 1840. advocated the abolition of slavery and nominated leader James Birney for pres 1840 and 1844. merged w/ other anti-slavery groups in 1848 -> Free Soil Party
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