Abolitionists Flashcards
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Overview of Both
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- Born into slavery, abused, escaped, Christian thinkers
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Truth
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- She loved another enslaved man, he was killed for seeing her
- Escaped when her master did not emancipate her
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Christianity (Truth)
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- Moves with her children to NYC
- The family who takes them in are religious
4
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Truth On Slavery
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- If we are all from the same God why are some seen as better
- Racial prejudice is blasphemy
4
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Turth Murder Charge
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- Blamed for killing her employer
- She is acquitted
- Also wins a slander suit
5
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Truth Abolitionist
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- Makes a speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention
- Sees feminism and abolitionism as connected
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Ain’t I A woman
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- Og speech was transcribed by her friend
- It was then retranscribed
- She is very intellectual in the actual speech
7
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Frances Gage
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- Rewrites the speech and appropriates T’s identity
- She is made to sound dumb basically
8
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Douglass Eulogy
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- He speaks at Truth’s funeral
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Fredrick Douglass
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- Is sent to a slave breaker, he speaks up, which gives him the awareness he can resist
- Marries a white abolitionist
- Emphasis on personhood
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Douglass Personhood
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- Personhood means you deserve rights
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Douglass Abolition
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- Speech at anti-slavery convention in Nantucket
- Flees to UK in 1845, freedom is bought in 1847
12
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Douglass Women’s Rights
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- Only African American to attend the Seneca convention
- Spoke for women’s rights, did not support the movement because they did not include abolition
13
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Civil War
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- Both were part of the effort
- Both speak to Lincoln
14
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July Fourth
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- Praises sarcastically the founding fathers
15
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Douglass and the Constitution
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- Defends it no the founders
- D believes the Con should apply universally
- US was limited in its own understanding of docs application
