Abolition
by Evelyn Mulcahey
Who were Abolitionists? What did they do?
Abolitionists were minority but very vocal. They came from many backgrounds and wanted to ban slavery for many different reasons. Quakers were the first to challenge slavery. Used newspaper and articles to further spread the cause. William Lloyd Garrison founded American Anti Slavery Society. The Liberator and the Anti Slavery Society split. The Underground railway was mostly were free blacks “Workers”. People donated money to support the cause. Abraham Lincoln did not support the underground railway. He was not a abolitionist. Many abolitionists were against him in may ways. People who were caught helping runaway slaves got branded with SS standing for slave stealer on their hand.
William Loyd Garrison
Some Top abolitionists
Arthur Tappan
“If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.”
― Arthur Tappan Pierson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Quotes
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
David Walker
“The Whites have had us under them for more than three centuries, murdering, and treating us like brutes. They want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us in order to subject us to that wretched condition – therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed. Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.”
- See more at: http://sharenews.com/abolitionist-david-walker-fought-for-the-freedom-of-blacks-in-the-u-s/#sthash.EwuDTg9V.dpufWilliam Loyd Garrison
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Frederick Douglas
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Sojourner Truth
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
Bibliography
Call to freedom chapter 15 pg 469-474 http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/slideshows/safety_slides.htm http://www.biography.com/people/william-lloyd-garrison-9307251