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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in the year 1817. He was taught to read and to write by the wife of one of his slave owners. The slave owner had ordered his wife to stop teaching him. Once Douglass had realized that knowledge was how he could be free, he studied even harder. -
Antislavery Societies
In the 1820s, over 100 Antislavery Societies were advocating for the resettlement of blacks in Africa. -
David Walker
David Walker was a free black. He had advised blacks to fight for their freedom, than to rather wait for the slave owners to end all slavery. Many slaves willing to do so joined Antislavery societies active by the end of the 1820s. -
The Communication of slaves
By the 1830s slaves were able to start to communicate to each other with English. The Majority of the were born in american and were taught to read and to write. -
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a radical white Abolitionist. He created his own paper called the liberator to deliver messages about slaves. -
State Legislateive
In january 1832 the state legislature was hotly debated to abolish slavery in Virginia. The motion lost 73 to 58 vote, mostly because of the fact that the legislature was balanced toward eastern slaveholders in the western part of the state. This loss had closed the debate on slavery. -
New Slave Rights
North Carolina was the last southern state to deny the vote to free blacks. In Some states free blacks lost the rights to own a gun, purchase alcohol, assemble in public, and testify in court. -
Gag Rule
The Gage Rule was the rule that limited or prevented debate on an issue. which meant that citizens submitting petitions were deprived of their right to be heard. -
The North Star
Frederick Douglass was an eager reader of The Liberator. But in the year 1847 Frederick Douglass created his own newspaer called The North Star, After the star that helped runaway slaves become free. -
Free Blacks
Many of the 434,000 free blacks in the south worked as day laborers, but some had held jobs of being artisans. Northern free blacks had soon realized that only the lowest paying jobs were open for them. -
