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PowerPoint_Ending_Slavery5.pptxEnd OF ENSLAVEMENT?
Dr. G. J. Giddings
Characteristics
forced,
resisted,
Codified/legal,
Contradictory …economic …
Militant Abolitionists
1829, David Walker’s “Appeal …”
1831, William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator
1831, Nat Turner’s Revolt
Abolitionist Propaganda …
David Walker, 1829
Freeman, NC
Migrated to Boston
“Appeal in Four Articles Including a Preamble to the Colored …” 1829
Died, 1830
Influenced N. Turner?
Edward G. Walker
MA Assembly
(R. Young’s “Ethiopian Manifesto” 1829)
David Walker ….
“… Are we men!! I ask you … are we MEN? Did our creator make us to be slaves to dust and ashes like ourselves? Are they not dying worms as well as we? … How we could be submissive to a gang of men, whom we cannot tell whether they are as good as ourselves or not, I never conceive …” D. Walker
F&H, p. 185
William L. Garrison, 1831
Former gradualist/ colonizationist
“The Liberator”
400 Black subscribers
Founded NEA-SS, 1832
AA-SS
US Constitution
“covenant with death …agreement with Hell,”
(O. G. Villard, NAACP)
Freedom’s Journal, 1827
Nat Turner, 1831
“The Prophet”
Aug. 21-23, 1831
South Hampton, VA
Signs:
Solar eclipse;
green-blue sun
70 Blacks involved
57-60 whites killed
100 prosecuted
Results:
New slave codes
Whites must be present at Black worship
Other Black Militants
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Henry H. Garnet
Mary A. Shadd Cary
Martin R. Delany
Samuel Cornish
John Brown Russwurm
Black Militant Periodicals
“Freedom’s Journal” 1827
“Rights Of All” 1829
“Mirror of Liberty” 1839
“North Star” 1847
“Colored Man’s Journal” 1851
“Provincial Freeman” 1853
“Anglo-African” 1859
Paths to Civil War/Secession
1850, Compromise …
1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act …
1857, Dred Scott v. Sandford …
1859, John Brown Raid …
Path to Civil War/Secession
1850 Compromise
Strict fugitive law,
CA as Free,
no trade in DC …
Texas debt forgiven …
Path to Civil War/Secession
1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed Missouri Compromise of 1820
MO, 36/30 parallel N
states decide slavery question
Spurred creation of Republican Party, 1854
Path to Civil War/Secession
1857, Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision
Enslaved in MO
Lived in IL and WI …
Sued for freedom in MO …
S.C. ruled (7-2), Blacks are not citizens …
Path … John Brown
Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA, Oct. 16 1859
Radical abolitionist
Consulted Black leaders
<50 posse
5 blacks; 2 killed, 2 hanged, 1 escaped)
5 whites killed
Eulogized by R. Waldo Emerson, D. Thoreau, et al.
Other Secession paths …
H. Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, (“life among the lowly”), 1852
Pres. Abraham Lincoln Election, 1860
Underground Railroad …
Other Secession paths …
Underground Railroad
100K “escapes” (1810-1850) $30 million
1787 Quaker, Isaac Hopper
40K via/to Ohio (W. Siebert)
1831, Tice Davis/Davids run away to Ohio
John Parker (b. 1827, d.1900)
His Promised Land
… “Underground Railroad”
… “Underground Railroad”
