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    American Antislavery 1820-1860  The antebellum American antislavery movement began in the 1820s and was sustained over 4 decades by organizations‚ publications‚ and small acts of resistance that challenged the legally protected and powerful institution of slavery and the more insidious enemy of black equality‚ racism. Abolitionists were always a radical minority even in the free states of the North‚ and the movement was never comprised of a single group of people with unified motivations‚ goals

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    profoundly coherent thinking that through the rhetorical triangle. Douglass Frederick is one of the African-American political leaders of the movement. He was born as a slave whom was famous reformer‚ writer‚ and polemicist. Douglass has been devoting abolitionism and struggle for black rights in his all life. His article is talk about a chattel catlike study English by himself‚ but the slaver has not

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    SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS PAGES 351-361 MORAL REFORM‚ ASYLUMS & PRISONS  Social evil --- alcohol; prostitution ( common in port cities)  Evangelical reformers approach o Rescue prostitutes o Offered salvation of religion‚ prayer & temporary shelter  Poor rate of success  Offered women domestic work which was low paying/restrictive  Campaigns against prostitution organized by women o Continued throughout the 19th century  Earliest‚ most effective anti-prostitution movement o Female

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    American Anti-Slavery Society. Weld’s gathering of these students became so successful that they had done away the pamphlet campaign and focused all their resources to enlarge Weld’s “heroic band.” With Seventy “agents” Weld and gave them training in abolitionism for weeks in New York. Weld‚ with a voice injury‚ had taken over the publicity part in which he initiated a new pamphlet campaign‚ and directed a national campaign in order to get anti-slavery petitions to Congress. Converts‚ of Welds that

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    DBQ: The Reform Movements of 1825-1850 During the time period between 1825-1850‚ ideals of equality‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness defined democracy and were inculcated into the masses of America through a series of reform movements that emerged in the antebellum era. These reforms were based on the desire to make America a civilized‚ utopian society. The main types of reforms in this era were social reforms‚ religious reforms‚ institutional reforms‚ and abolitionist reforms. The main social

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    Frederick Douglass was a fiery orator and his speeches were often published in various abolitionist newspapers. Among his well-known speeches is "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro‚" presented in Rochester‚ New York‚ on July 5‚ 1852‚ a version of which he published as a booklet. It is often studied in literature classes today. Douglass moved to Rochester in 1847‚ when he became the publisher of The North Star‚ an abolitionist weekly. There were approximately 500 attendees who heard him speak

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    common place‚ regardless of class or background. It set the standard for education reform and brought children out of factories. Horace Mann: leading voice of education reform in mid 1800’s. He explained the idea of the Common School. 4: Abolitionism: Slavery in America. a movement was formed (ABOLITION) to completely end slavery in U.S. Did this through news papers‚

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    Abolitionist Movement The Abolitionist Movement was one of the major events that impacted slavery in America. The Second Great Awakening was one of the events that made abolitionist realize the sin of slavery‚ which eventually led to the Abolitionist Movement. It was not only one‚ or two but a group of different people who raised awareness about slavery. The abolitionists were men and women of good will and colors who faced the cruel choice that people in many ages have had thrust upon them

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    United States history from 1800 to 1859 was demonstrating national greatness and national unity. Yet‚ by 1860 North and South were so polarized that the lower South seceded immediately upon Lincoln’s election. In the decades leading up to the civil war there were division within divisions at work that led Southerners to believe that they had no other recourse but to secede from the Union. This paper will assess the reasons why compromise seemed impossible in 1860. By providing an assessment of

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    correct all the problems of the world. The greatest social and political significance of this Great Awakening came from the movements associated with it: temperance‚ moral reform (such as the campaign to end prostitution)‚ and most significantly‚ abolitionism. The second Great Awakening was a revival of Protestantism in North America. Utopian Society: People: Scottish industrialist Robert Owen bought New Harmony and attempted to form a secular Utopian community there. The group lasted until 1905‚

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