Chapter 5: Causes of the Civil War Core Lesson 2: The Struggle for Freedom.
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Transcript of Chapter 5: Causes of the Civil War Core Lesson 2: The Struggle for Freedom.
Chapter 5: Causes of the Civil
WarCore Lesson 2: The Struggle for
Freedom
The Antislavery Movement
• Groups against slavery formed in the mid-1800s
• Some people felt slavery was completely necessary to grow cotton and tobacco in the South
• Abolitionists – Someone who joined the
movement to abolish, or end, slavery
– Included all types of people from South and North
The Antislavery Movement• Leading Abolitionists
– William Lloyd Garrison printed antislavery newspaper The Liberator demanding freedom
– Frederick Douglass• Escaped slave himself• Wrote/spoke to with audiences about slavery
– Sojourner Truth = previously a slave who spoke out against slavery and for women’s rights
– Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke• Daughters of cruel S. Carolina slave-owner• Disagreed with father, moved north, and spoke
out
The Antislavery Movement
• Free Blacks– In the South
• Faced discrimination (the unfair treatment of particular groups)
• Laws limited rights of free blacks– Permission to travel– Meet in group only w/ white person
present
– In the North• Some discrimination but still able to
work openly against slavery• Created the American Anti-Slavery
Society (1833)– Raised funds to continue working
against slavery
The Antislavery Movement
Review:What did free blacks in the
North do to convince people that slavery was
wrong?
The Underground Railroad• The Underground Railroad
helped people escape from slavery.
• Underground Railroad – Series of escape routes and hiding
places to bring slaves out of the South
– Runaways could go for the North and Canada or south to Florida, Mexico, or the Caribbean
– Operated at night in secret– If caught they were returned and
punished
The Underground Railroad• Stations and Conductors
– Stations• Supported mainly by free blacks• Gave food, clothing, and medical
aid to runaways• Offered a hiding place
– Conductors• Guided runaways to next station• Most famous = Harriet Tubman
– Escaped slavery in Maryland– Returned 19 times to help, in all,
about 300 people escape– Symbol of abolitionist movement
The Underground Railroad
Review:What was the
purpose of the Underground Railroad?
Why it Matters…
As abolitionists struggled to free enslaved people, they convinced others
that slavery was wrong.