southern slaves. Newspapers such as The Liberator and special interest groups such as the American Colonization Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society began to flourish under the new religious climate of equality and moral righteousness. William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe published especially influential abolitionist literature and rejected the less-radical and less-just idea of gradualism. Northern preachers took up the call‚ and began condemning slavery from the pulpit. Southern
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People (including women) started to fight for slaves to have right and to be free because they were humans like everyone else‚ and they claimed it to be unconstitutional to refuse them freedom. The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and was an abolitionist society. This society normally sponsored meetings‚ signed anti-slavery petitions‚ and printed propaganda to promote anti-slavery. Many lectures and speeches were given by members of the society to help spread the
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Termpaper Class: African American Study IV Subject: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences Between the Black Abolitionists and the White Abolitionists Movements Black and white abolitionists shared common assumptions about the evil of slavery‚ the "virtue of moral reform"‚ and the certainty of human progress"(1). Schor‚ Garnet‚1877‚ & Lanngston‚ 1989). This shared understanding provided "the basic for the interracial solidarity" and cooperation so vital in the crusade against slavery"(2)
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Cited: . Douglass‚ Frederick. "The Church and Prejudice." Plymouth County Anti-Slavery Society. Massachusetts‚ Plymouth County. 14 Nov. 1841. 2. Douglass‚ Frederick‚ Houston A. Baker‚ and William Lloyd Garrison. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave. New York: Penguin Books‚ Limited‚ 1982.
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proliferation of new institutions during the antebellum era demonstrated 16. Horace Mann 17. Public schools 18. The American Colonization Society 19. Liberia 20. An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World 21. David Walker 22. William Lloyd Garrison 23. Thoughts on African Colonization 24. Antislavery movement’s mass constituency 25. The Fourth of July to Frederick Douglass 26. The “gag rule” 27. Dorothea Dix 28. Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls 29. “Social freedom”
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powerful writers. In that sense‚ I mean that Franklin was a "well-educated" man in which he filled his life with bountiful knowledge through reading and productive dialogues with peers. On the other hand‚ Douglass mode of writing‚ like ones of William Lloyd Garrison ’s is sentimental and contains compelling language.<br><br>In The Autobiography by Franklin and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave by Douglass‚ both narrations are generally composed of series of life events and
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MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM Frederick Augustus Washington Baily (Frederick Douglass)‚ was born a slave on the Holme Hill farm on Tuckahoe Creek‚ Talbot County‚ in Maryland in February 1817. His mother Harriet Bailey was also a slave but he didn’t know who was his father. Mr. Douglass suggests that “his white master may have been his father”. He mentions having seen his mother a few times at nights in Aunt Katy’s kitchen. Ms. Hill was assigned to work in a field about twelve miles away and was not
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for free blacks‚ who lived in an anomalous condition of “freedom” without citizenship and with constant threat of discrimination‚ violence‚ and abduction to be sold into slavery. There were some bitter conflicts over specific strategies. Though Garrison and most blacks favored immediate abolition‚ many whites
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Reform movements in the United States sought to expand democratic ideals. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to the years 1825-1850. Even though all reform movements from 1825-1850 did not directly promote democratic principles‚ several reform movements occurred which did attempt to create a better life for people‚ create a more democratic society through education‚ and extend civil rights to minority groups. The reform movement began with the Second Great Awakening
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influential actions were just starting. Once he reached the free states of the North‚ he decided to help his fellow slaves by becoming an abolitionist. He joined multiple organizations and attended abolitionist meetings regularly. He once heard William Lloyd Garrison speak and became inspired. A few days later‚ he delivered his first speech about the hardships he endured as a slave. He continued to deliver speeches throughout his life. Douglass also published a number of newspapers including North Star
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