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Crusade Against
Slavery
1st Americans willing to challenge
slavery
• Quakers
• Slaves
• Free Blacks
Why did the antislavery movement
temporarily die out after the
Revolutionary War?
Back to Africa - Colonization
• American Colonization Society
• Liberia – Monrovia
• Good or bad idea?
• Could Blacks ever be free in America?
Power of the Pen
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Liberator – 1831
• Propagandist
• Militant Language but rejected violence
Power of
the Pen
• Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
• Harriet Beecher
Stowe 1852
• Life of a Slave
Abolitionist Strategies/Arguments
• Bible and Declaration of Independence –
David Walker
• Inflammatory rhetoric and Constitution –
Garrison
• Slavery was a sin – Weld
• Birthplace determines who was an
American – Child
• 1st Martyr – Elijah P. Lovejoy
• Look on page 453 – Frederick Douglass
Powerful images for abolitionists
movement
• Look at the following pictures and
list the powerful images you see on
the following pages.
440, 442, 445, 446
What would be the best strategy
to use by abolitionists which
would bring an end to slavery?