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The Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist Movement-Theodore D. Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and Elizur Wright, Jr., all had taken up the cause of “immediate emancipation.” The goal was to get immediate emancipation of all slaves. It was diffrent from other anti-slave activist who were asking for gradual emancipation or to restrict it to existing areas. Abolitionist ideas became progressively noticeable in church and politics in the north. -
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The Liberator
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his famous antislavery newspaper "The Liberator" The Liberator served for 30 years as the central voice of the abolition movement. -
American Anti-Slavery Society
The Tappans, Garrison, and sixty other delegates of both races and genders found the American Anti-Slavery Society, which denounced slavery as a sin that must be abolished immediately, -
Elijah Lovejoy
In 1837, abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy was murdered by pro-slavery vigilantes in illinois, which made many northerners, fearful for their own civil liberties, and brought important converts such as Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, and Edmund Quincy to the cause. -
American Anti Slavery Society Split
Due to disagreements among themselves the American Anti-Slavery Society split leaving Garrison and his supporters. His opponents, led by the Tappans, founded the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society -
Feminist & Abolitionists
Within the Garrison wing of movement female abolitionists became leaders of the nation’s first independent feminist’s movement. Instrumental in organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, white abolitionists also protected African Americans threatened with capture as escapees from bondage, although blacks themselves managed the Underground Railroad. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Mandated “popular soveignty” allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed in new state borders. Conflicts arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was fought between the Union and the Confederacy from April 12, 1861 – May 10, 1865 -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves in Rebel territory are free on January 1, 1863 -
Wendell Phillips
Garrison and his supporters asserted that the passage of the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery made continuation of the American anti-slavery society unnecessary. Wendell Phillips insisted that the achievement of complete political equality for all black males could guarantee the freedom of the former slaves successfully prevented Garrison from dissolving the society. -
1870
The demand for land, the ballot, and education for freedman.
The fifteenth amendment passed. Granting African-American men the right to vote as stated “the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
