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The Underground Railroad and The Abolitionist Movement (PEOPLE (William…
The Underground Railroad and The Abolitionist Movement
PEOPLE
William Lloyd Garrison
Argued for immediate emancipation and was an editor for an anti-slavery newspaper
Elijah Lovejoy
Supported gradual emancipation (was killed by a pro-slavery mob)
Fredrick Douglas
Escaped slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement
Theodore Parker
Supported the idea of abolition & preached against slavery
Horace Greeley
well know poet--> wrote the North's anti-slavery sentiments
Wendell Phillips
Wanted civil liberties for all people and was the President of the American Anti-Slavery Association
Harriet Tubman
Well known "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
MEDIA
Newspapers
Plantation owners spread the news about the Underground Railroad in attempts to stop their slaves from using it to escape
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin(1852)--> brings up reality of slavery(vital anti-slavery tool)
MOVEMENTS(EVENTS)
JOHN BROWN'S RAID
John Brown & anti-slavery followers attacked a pro-slavery community & started small scale guerilla war
Sparked the abolitionist movement.
TRIAL AT HARPER'S FERRY, VA
John Brown--> captured by the
VA gov’t & tried for
treason against VA (encouraging
slave rebellion, and murder.)
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
Part of Compromise of 1850--> used to pacify the Southern states by allowing them to recapture free slaves.
Part of Compromise of 1850--> used to pacify the Southern states by allowing them to recapture free slaves.
THE DRED SCOTT CASE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
EFFECTS
A "reverse Underground Railroad" was used to capture black people & return them to the South to sell as slaves.
HOW IT WORKED
A complex system of people (anti-slavery) worked together to take escaped slaves from safe places--> places where they'ed be free
ESCAPEES
Approximately 6,000 slaves used the Railroad to escape into freedom.
STATES
All of the Southern states and most of the other states, especially important border states such as Virginia, were involved in the Underground Railroad
ROUTES
Most routes taken on foot, but many ships were involved in smuggling slaves up north.
BELIEFS AND MOTIVES
The abolitionist movement was a social and political push for the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation.