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   In 1817, a group of white Virginians organized the American Colonization Society, which worked to challenge slavery without challenging property rights or southern sensibilities. They proposed a gradual freeing of slaves, with masters receiving compensation through funds raised by private charity, which then they would transport the free slaves out of the country and help them establish a new society of their own elsewhere. However, the ACS quickly ended because there was not nearly enough funding to carry out such projects and many African Americans had no wish in returning to Africa. In 1830, the antislavery movement was losing strength and the cotton boom in the south was increasing the commitment of planters to their “peculiar” labor system.

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 Abolition of Slavery  

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Successful Abolition of Slavery In 1865, in the aftermath of the civil war, the United States abolished slavery through the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution.

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 Opponents of the Reform

Leaders of the Reform ❖

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William Lloyd Garrison founded his own weekly newspaper known as “The Liberator”. He said that opponents of slavery should view the institution from the point of view of a black man, not a white slave owner. He attracted a large group of followers from the North, which enabled him to found the New England Antislavery Society in 1832, and a year later the American Antislavery Society. David Walker published a harsh pamphlet known as “Walker’s Appeal...to the Colored Citizens”, in which he said that slaves should cut the throats of their masters and that they should either “kill or be killed.” Sojourner Truth was a freed black who emerged as a powerful and eloquent spokeswoman for the abolition of slavery. Frederick Douglass purchased his freedom from his Maryland owner and raised awareness of slavery through his antislavery newspaper called “The North Star” and his autobiography “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”, in which he presented a damning picture of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the writer of the novel Uncle  Tom’s Cabin. She combined the emotional convention of the sentimental novel with the political ideas of the abolition movement, and to a sensational effect. Her novel succeeded in bringing the message to an enormous new audience.

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Most anti-abolitionists were white southern farmers who were full of fear and some northern whites. Some whites said it would produce a destructive war between the sections and others feared that it would lead to a great influx of blacks to the North. Many whites even viewed the abolition of slavery as a threat to stability and order.

  Violence Towards Abolitionists ❖

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Prudence Crandall attempted to admit several African American girls to her private school in CT. Soon after, local citizens had her arrested, threw filth into her well and forced her to close the school. Elijah Lovejoy was an editor of abolitionist newspaper. His office was invaded three times by angry white men and they smashed his presses each time. Time after time, Elijah would install new machines and begin publishing again. However, when the mob attacked the fourth time, he tried to defend his press, so the attackers set fire to the building and as Elijah fled, he was shot and killed.

       Growing Radicalism ❖ William Lloyd Garrison’s growing radicalism shocked even many of his own allies (including Frederick Douglass), by attacking not only slavery but the government itself. ❖ Garrison said that the constitution was a “covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” ❖ He also claimed that the nation’s churches were bulwarks of slavery.  ...