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    One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country. Liberia: place where freed slaves could return to Africa The Liberator: an anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition‚ both positive and negative‚ causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed. American Anti-Slavery Society: group of abolitionists Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World: written by David

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    Reading Logs- The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass 1. Review vocabulary words at the beginning of each chapter. List the words whose meanings suggest they are used by Douglass in narrative to describe the horrors of slavery. | Execrate: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishmentPerpetrate: perform an act‚ usually with a negative connotationEgotistical: characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importanceSunder: break apart or in two

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    William Garrison grew up in Massachusetts‚ but the War of 1812 leeched his town of economic prosperity. In the end‚ this drove Garrison’s father to eventually run away from the family. Garrison’s mother was forced to send him and his siblings to live with neighbors as she alone could not support them. William was sent to live with the publisher of the Newburyport Herald‚ where Garrison later took on an apprenticeship. This apprenticeship fostered his to love for printing and the “world of words”

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    William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a journalist‚ social reformer‚ and a leading figure in the abolitionist movement‚ and his preface can be seen as an excellent rhetorical strategy for the entire work because it is an endorsement of Douglass’ story‚ as well as for

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    Abolition Womens Rights

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    transport free blacks to West Africa. By the 1830s talk of abolition had disappeared from the south after Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Southampton County‚ Virginia in 1831 as it created a constant fear of another killing rampage. In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison began publishing a newspaper called the Liberator which expressed very strong feelings against slavery‚ calling for “immediate‚ uncompensated emancipation.” He was also a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society two years later and

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    was born in Newbury‚ Massachusetts where he was raised near poverty solely by his mother because his deserted the family. Garrison worked as an editor in 1827 for the National Philanthropist. When he was 25‚ Garrison joined the antislavery movement. The movement at this time was very divided and decentralized due to everyone having a different opinion. At first Garrison was for the gradual liberation and colonization of the slaves. As time passed‚ he became more demanding for immediate action

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    Spirit work ch 16

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    country‚ or home. He can own nothing‚ posses nothing‚ but what must belong to another. The system was most unjust when it came to the whip. Once a slave was blamed to do bad‚ slaveholders would “rely on the whip”. Chapter 16 C1: William Lloyd Garrison Launches The Liberator (1831) Since he did not like the idea of slavery in New England‚ he was determined‚ at every hazard‚ to lift up the standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation‚ within sight of Bunker Hill and in the birth place

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    Fredrick

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    The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass shows the struggle in his life and a wide variety of disputes along the way. It is a recollection of his personal‚ social life‚ in this narrative the reader is able appreciate Fredrick Douglass from different perspectives. Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe‚ Maryland around 1818‚ like other slaves he grew up with no accurate knowledge of his own age‚ his mother was Harriet Bailey and rumors were that his father was his mother’s white master

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    one‚ or two but a group of different people who raised awareness about slavery. The abolitionists were men and women of good will and colors who faced the cruel choice that people in many ages have had thrust upon them. Frederick Douglass‚ William Garrison and Sojourner Truth were three important abolitionists who impacted slavery in a great manner. Frederick Douglass an abolitionist who was once a slave who suffered. Even though Frederick escaped to the North when he was 21 in 1838‚ abolitionist

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    My Bondage, My Freedom

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    Essay: My Bondage‚ My Freedom First published in 1855‚ this book tells the story of Fredrick Douglass ’ life first as a slave‚ then as a fugitive‚ and finally as a free man working to free the rest of the slaves in the American South from bondage. My Bondage and My Freedom is widely considered to be one of the most historically influential documents produced in the midst of the abolitionist movement. Written by a former slave‚ the memoir served as a moving argument against the inhuman institution

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