Abolitionism

Neal Dow was a man who contributed to many causes during his time. He was a general for the union during the Civil War and was also very active in the cause of abolishing Negro Slavery. He was also a presidential candidate in 1880 for the Prohibition party. “Among additional social causes, he interested himself in crime prevention, prison reform, and women's rights” (Neal Dow Prohibition Presidential Candidate 1880). The cause he is most known for is the temperance movement which is the…

Slavery has always been a controversial topic, but Mark Twain took the risk to address it in his famous book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The book takes place during the time of slavery. Society taught the people to judge the slaves as the lesser majorities. Slaves did not possess the rights and freedoms that the wealthy and independent men had. Society had drilled thoughts and values into the minds of the young people, in which stayed with them and were reinforced in the minds of their…

Slavery began as a method to generate workers for the plantations in the New World. However, it only created hundreds of years of abuse. Europeans toke millions of Africans from their homes and families and were then forced to work hard labor with grave punishments. Slavery affected everyone, from the masters whose morality became dirtied, to the slaves themselves who were stuck in a system that only brought them pain. Slavery needed to be abolished. Being around slavery caused people to relent…

Tquisha, it is most definitely interesting at the role women played in the abolitionist movement in a time when their role was supposed to be the home. There is a likelihood that the women of the era understood the oppression better due to their lack of rights in a society that they had fought just as hard to achieve. For instance, they protested England by not buying goods, making their own goods, and even fought in several battles (Schultz, 2009). Yet, when the war for “independence” was…

The Republicans chose Lincoln as their candidate for a few reasons. For one, Lincoln had no military background to use to prove his leadership abilities. However, he did have a political record and most of it had been in print and spread around for all to read. Therefore, many citizens were aware of what he stood for. It didn’t help Douglas when he lied about having family obligations and then taking a long route through the South up to the North and using the train stops to give campaign…

Dred Scott was a important person in America and in the Supreme Court's history. He helped push America towards what's right and the Civil War. Dred Scott was born sometime in 1795 and was born into slavery. He had a brother and a father and mother. His family and him were owned by Peter Blow. They had moved to Huntsville, Alabama, then St. Louis, Missouri. Peter Blow died in 1830. His death lead to Scott being sold to a U.S army doctor named Dr. Emerson. He and his owner for sometimes kept…

Who is Sojourner Truth? Sojourner Truth changed the history for slavery. She was also an African-American abolitionist and women rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. She was famous for her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech. She traveled the country often using her fearless voice to fight for human rights. Born Isabelle Baumfree in 1797, she was born to Jams and Elizabeth Baumfree in Swartekill, New York. She was born into slavery but historians estimated that was the…

In the popular teen-fiction novel, Twilight, Stephanie Meyer writes “Just because we’ve been… dealt a certain hand… doesn’t mean that we can’t choose to rise above- to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted”. Just because one has a bad life or their life takes a wrong turn, does not mean one shouldn’t try to change. This quote fits today because a lot of people have been rising above the odds or fighting for what they want or deserve. People should fight to make their way in…

William Still was born the 18th child of Levin and Charity Still. William Still lived a very interesting life. William Still had many jobs, abolitionist, writer, historian, civil rights activist and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He was chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. William Still wrote of his experiences as an Underground Railroad conductor and the refugee slaves he met along the way. In 1844 Still settled in Philadelphia and started…

Harriet Tubman was an African-American anti-slavery worker, and humanitarian. She was also a Union spy during the American Civil War. She was born into slavery but she escaped. During her life, she made nineteen trips. She helped more than 300 slaves escape.She used the Underground Railroad. When Tubman was a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by many different masters. When she was very young, an angry overseer threw a heavy metal weight at another slave. The…