(Lecture 14) Slavery's Critics and its Defenders Flashcards
Quakers?
Northwest England
George Fox
William Penn
What were the Quaker’s beliefs/policies?
Free of aristocracy
Taxes low
No war and military service
Opposed slavery
what percentage of women’s rights activists were Quakers?
19%
What is Gradualism- the American Colonisation Society, 1817?
Abolitionist movement.
Robert Finley.
Advocated gradual, voluntary end to slavery.
Established a colony in Africa called Monrovia.
12,000 AAs settled there, upper south put up with this as it served as a way of getting rid of the problematic slaves.
Lincoln.
What is immediatism? (American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833)
demand for an immediate end to slavery
Who was a prominent figure of immediatism?
William Lloyd Garrison
What underpins immediatism?
Refusal to reimburse slaveholders.
Slaves decide where they want to live, not deported.
How many abolitionists by 1850s?
200,000
Which people made up the abolitionists?
Mainly middle-class rural people
Who were some famous black abolitionists?
Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Tubman
What is the ‘Positive Good’ argument?
black people were just beneath white people
who was the figure of the positive good argument?
George Fitzhugh
what were the 5 major components of the positive good argument?
Christianity (religion never said anything against slavery).
History (never had a world without slavery).
Racial inferiority (deficient brains, paternalism).
Work (emphasised poor conditions of northern industrial workers so free labour not so free).
Cotton and the West (west a symbol of the future and cotton would be the main component).
