1. Abolition Movement
Ideas and Leaders

2. The daily life of slaves.
•
Living Conditions – large
families in one-room cabins;
unbalanced diets, no running
water or poor sanitation
•
Some slaves became artisans
•
Allowed to marry and have
children
•
Many subjected to Cruel
Punishments and denied basic
human rights
•
Could be sold and separated
from family at anytime.

3. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
• August 1831 in Southampton
County, Virginia
• Nat Turner, a black religious
leader led 70-75 slaves on attack
• They killed 60 whites, including
men, women, and children
• Spread fear among slave owners
– States passed stricter laws
controlling activities of free and
enslaved blacks

4. ABOLITION
when a law or a system is officially ended
• Principles behind Abolition Movement
o Political – “All men are created equal”
o Religious – equal in the eyes of God
• Abolitionists wanted the immediate,
emancipation of all slaves.
• Involved men and women

5. Who Were the
Abolitionists?

6. Frederick Douglas
• Escaped from slavery at age 20
• Wrote 3 autobiographies
• Published anti-slavery
newspaper, The North Star
• Toured the North giving
speeches and appearing at
public anti-slavery events.
• Supported Women’s Rights
Movement
Frederick Douglass

7. William Lloyd Garrison
• From Boston
• Published The Liberator,
1831
• Organized New England
Anti-Slavery Society, 1832
• Went to Europe to gain
support for abolition
• Saw slavery as morally
wrong

8. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Born into a religious family
of Abolitionists
• Wrote the book, Uncle
Tom’s Cabin in 1853 after
meeting runaway slaves
and hearing their
experiences
• Book was a best seller that
made many Americans
aware of the evils of
slavery

9. John Quincy Adams
• In 1836, Congress passes the
GAG RULE – preventing any
bills restricting or ending
slavery
• Q. Adams fought against the
gag rule calling it
unconstitutional.
• The gag rule was finally
suspended in 1844

10. Harriet Tubman
• Most famous “Conductor” of the
Underground Railroad
• After escaping herself, she made
19 separate trips back to the
South and helped about 300
slaves escape to freedom
– She was called “Mama Moses”
• She served as a spy for the
Union during the Civil War

11. Underground Railroad
• Secret network of abolitionists who worked together
to help runaway slaves reach freedom in the North
or in Canada
• Runaways would travel 10-20 miles before they
reached the next “station” which would be houses,
barns, or cellars of white or free black people who
chose to help them escape.
• They would be helped along the routes by people
like Harriet Tubman, called “conductors”