Antebellum Abolitionist Movement

Date: Early 1830s

• The American Colonization Society - wanted to send blacks back to Africa - Liberia was founded for this purpose.
• Britain had freed slaves in West Indies.
• Theodore Dwight Weld - spoke against slavery -travelled through Old Northwest preaching, wrote a pamphlet that influenced Harriet Beechar Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. He was a gradualist.
• William Lloyd Garrison - antislavery newspaper The Liberator. Founded American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Black abolitionists: Frederick Douglass (wrote the North Star, escaped slave), David Walker, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delaney.
• Liberty party in 1840, Free Soil party in 1848, and Republican party in 1850s.
• Significance: Split the union, led to civil war. Created strong opposition to slavery, and the South.

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