as a co-conspirator. Douglass believed that the attack on federal property would enrage the American public. Douglass would later share a stage in Harpers Ferry with Andrew Hunter, the prosecutor who successfully convicted Brown. Douglass conferred with President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 on the treatment of black soldiers, and with President Andrew Johnson on the subject of black suffrage. His early collaborators were the white abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. In the early 1850's, however, Douglass split with the Garrisonians over the issue of the United States Constitution. Douglass had five children; two of them, Charles and Rossetta, helped produce his newspapers. Douglass was an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Autobiography Douglass' most well-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of
but their ports and shipowners prospered on the slave trade. · The slave was a chattel could be sold and bought like an animal · No stable family life · Prohibited to learn to read and write · In conflict with the growing revolutionary idea all men are created equal 13. The abolitionist movement. After which event was slavery abolished in the US? Who was the president then? *Abolitionists = · "the underground railroad" · "depots" hiding places · "conductors" guides who helped runaway slaves · "bounty hunters" people who got rewards for escaped slaves 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on an anti-slavery platform *Abolition of Slavery = Sept. 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in states at war against the US were free as of Jan. 1, 1863
Uncle Tom's Cabin contributed to the outbreak of war by personalizing the political and economic arguments about slavery. Stowe's informal, conversational writing style inspired people in a way that political speeches, tracts and newspapers accounts could not. Uncle Tom's Cabin helped many 19thcentury Americans determine what kind of country they wanted. Immediately after its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin was both lauded as an achievement and attacked as inaccurate: The most liberal abolitionists felt the book was not strong enough in its call to immediately end slavery, disliked Stowe's tacit support of the colonization movement, and suggested that Stowe's main character Tom was not forceful enough. More moderate antislavery advocates and reformers praised the book for putting a human face on those held in slavery, emphasizing the impact slavery had on families, and helping the public understand and empathize with the plight of enslaved mothers. Proslavery
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