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Abolitionist Movement

By kittermanc
  • Quaker Leaders

    Quaker Leaders

    1700s - early 1800s: Quaker leaders used sermons to change public opinion about slavery.
  • Outlawing Slavery

    Outlawing Slavery

    1804 - All states NORTH of Pennsylvania had outlawed slavery.
  • Congress steps in

    Congress steps in

    1807 - Congress banned the importation of Africans (for slavery) into the United States
  • American Colonization Society

    American Colonization Society

    1817 - The American Colonization Society was created to address the needs of former slaves in the North.
  • Underground Railroad

    Underground Railroad

    1800 - 1865: A secret network of safe houses and conductors who led slave to freedom in the North and Canada, led by Harriet Tubman.
  • Abolitionist Papers

    Abolitionist Papers

    1847 - Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison published abolitionist newspapers.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    1857 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published, furthering the abolitionist movement in the North.