8.3 Anti-Slavery Movement Flashcards
Denmark Vessy
Lead slave revolt in Charleston South Carolina he was a freeman
Slavery
Grew in the early 1800s because of cotton and cotton gin some slaves chose to run or revolt
Freedman
Former slave
Nat Turner
1831
Aug-
Went to capture armory in Richmond Virginia killed 60 people but was stopped by militia after six weeks and hanged
Frightened south
Harsher slave laws no reading or gathering
American colonization Society
Created by South slaveholders an abolitionist which encouraged free box to move to Africa so as not to encourage revolts from the enslaved several thousand freemen were moved
1807
Slave trade ended
Abolition movement
Movement to end slavery
Frederick Douglass
Prominent abolitionist freeman and lecturer who talked about former slave life
South arguments
Slavery is better then north workers because there’s less conflict Christianity support slavery
slaves cannot survive alone
Gag rule
1836 to 1843
Prohibited debate and discussion in Congress on the subject of slavery supported by South and some of the northerners
William Lloyd Garrison
Printer in Boston Massachusetts who became a leading abolitionist
1831- He published the liberator
- at first he wanted gradual abolition but then became a radical wanted immediate emancipation and civil rights for African-Americans
1833- Created the American antislavery society with 150,000 members in 1840 had lectures and said slavery was immoral