CARD 33 - Slavery
Abolition
Before US independence, religious groups and people of many races saw that holding slaves and demanding freedom for themselves was contradictory. Some of these people even held slaves. As early as 1786, organizations had been founded to protest slavery in the United States. People who contributed to the cause of emancipation or freeing of slaves were called "abolitionists". They assisted fugitive slaves in their attempts to find freedom in the Free States. Abolitionist literature began to appear about 1820. To build enthusiasm at their meetings, anti-slavery organizations used songs, some of which survive.Abolitionist included men and women of many races. They included: the Ottawa Indians, Seminoles, Shinnecocks, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, William Still, Thaddeus Stevens, Alan Pinkerton, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Marquis de Lafayette, Susan Brownell Anthony, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Maria Weston Chapman, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Wright.
Abolitionist John Brown’s attack and capture of a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA in 1859 was intended to ignite a general slave uprising. Brown had increasingly used guerrilla-style tactics to achieve his goals. Brown was captured and hanged, thus creating a martyr and a catalyst for the Civil War.| |
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