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Wm. Lloyd Garrison fought strongly for the right of African Americans to be free. On one occasion Garrison was present when Fredrick Douglass spoke to a white audience about life as a slave. Douglass electrified his audience with a powerful speech. Suddenly Garrison jumped to his feet,” is this a man,” he demanded of the audience, “or a thing?” Garrison shared Douglass’s outrage that people could be bought as objects.
Early Efforts to end Slavery • Early efforts to reform was not limited to education and the arts. • People like Wm Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglas led the way for the ending of Slavery. • Abolitionists- People who worked for the ending of slavery
Early Efforts to end Slavery • Going back before the Revolutionary War, people tried to end slavery. • This was a major constitutional issue, that allowed each state to decide if they were going to be a slave state or a free state.
Early Efforts to end Slavery • By the early 1800’s Northern states had ended slavery, but it continued in the South.
Early Efforts to end Slavery • Religious reform in the early and mid 1800’s gave life to the anti-slavery movement, particularly from the Quakers.
American Colonization Society • The American Colonization Society (ACS) worked to free enslaved workers gradually by buying them from slaveholders. • It was formed in 1816 by white Virginians who work to send them abroad to start new lives.
American Colonization Society • The ACS Raised money from private donors, Congress, & some state legislatures. • In 1822 the first African American colony was created by land purchased in West Africa called Liberia. P.4
American Colonization Society • In 1847 Liberia became an independent country. • Approximately 12,000 to 20,000 settled this new country between 1822-1865. • The ACS could only settle a few families at a time.
Change in the Abolition Movement • In 1829 Wm Lloyd Garrison left MA to work for country’s leading antislavery Newspaper. • Impatient with this paper he found his own newspaper The Liberator.
Change in the Abolition Movement • Garrison was the first white abolitionist to call for “the immediate and complete emancipation” of enslaved people. • Garrison attracted enough followers to start The New England Antislavery Society in 1832.
Change in the Abolition Movement • By 1838 Garrison’s New England Antislavery Society had over 1,000 chapters.
The Grimke’ Sisters • The first women to speak out publically were Sarah & Angelina Grimke’. • The Grimke’s came from a plantation family in South Carolina.
The Grimke’ Sisters • The Grimke’ sisters persuaded their mother to give them their share of the family inheritance in slaves upon which they were freed immediately.
The Grimke’ Sisters • Angelina Grimke’ and her husband abolitionist Theodore Weld wrote “American Slavery As It Is” in 1839. • It was a collection of first hand accounts of life in slavery.
