Chapter 17 Flashcards
William Johnson
Black man who owned slaves
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle tom’s cabin
About family separation in slave auctions & conditions of slaves
Solomon northrut
Slave smuggler
Gabriel’s rebellion
1800
Denmark vesey’s plot
1822
- Most ambitious uprising plot
- Planned to take over SC, kill all whites, and burn down city before going to Haiti
Nat turner’s rebellion
1831
White mobs rioted & killed 100 innocent blacks
Why was the american colonization society and Liberia created?
1817
To send free blacks back to America
Theodore Dwight Weld
- Noteworthy abolitionist
- Inspired by revivalist evangelism
Theodore Dwight Weld & Tappan brothers
American slavery as it is (antislavery propaganda)
William Lloyd garrison created
The liberator (1831)
William Lloyd garrison founded what?
American anti-slavery society in Boston
Wendell Phillips
- Member of antislavery society
- “Abolition’s golden trumpet”
- used boycott to shape policy
David walker created
- Appeal to the coloured citizens of the world (1829)
- urged slaves to resort to violence to win freedom
Sojourner truth
“Ain’t I a women” speech (1851)
Frederick Douglass created
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
What was so special about Douglass?
He was intellectually gifted and became orator of rare power
Elijah Lovejoy
- Printing press destroyed 4 times and murdered
- 1st white abolitionist martyr
What was the gag rule
Forbid abolitionist petitions from being read it debated in House of Rep.
