southern slaves. Newspapers such as The Liberator and special interest groups such as the American Colonization Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society began to flourish under the new religious climate of equality and moral righteousness. William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe published especially influential abolitionist literature and rejected the less-radical and less-just idea of gradualism. Northern preachers took up the call‚ and began condemning slavery from the pulpit. Southern
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powerful writers. In that sense‚ I mean that Franklin was a "well-educated" man in which he filled his life with bountiful knowledge through reading and productive dialogues with peers. On the other hand‚ Douglass mode of writing‚ like ones of William Lloyd Garrison ’s is sentimental and contains compelling language.<br><br>In The Autobiography by Franklin and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave by Douglass‚ both narrations are generally composed of series of life events and
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Termpaper Class: African American Study IV Subject: Analyzing the Fundamental Differences Between the Black Abolitionists and the White Abolitionists Movements Black and white abolitionists shared common assumptions about the evil of slavery‚ the "virtue of moral reform"‚ and the certainty of human progress"(1). Schor‚ Garnet‚1877‚ & Lanngston‚ 1989). This shared understanding provided "the basic for the interracial solidarity" and cooperation so vital in the crusade against slavery"(2)
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People (including women) started to fight for slaves to have right and to be free because they were humans like everyone else‚ and they claimed it to be unconstitutional to refuse them freedom. The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and was an abolitionist society. This society normally sponsored meetings‚ signed anti-slavery petitions‚ and printed propaganda to promote anti-slavery. Many lectures and speeches were given by members of the society to help spread the
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Cited: . Douglass‚ Frederick. "The Church and Prejudice." Plymouth County Anti-Slavery Society. Massachusetts‚ Plymouth County. 14 Nov. 1841. 2. Douglass‚ Frederick‚ Houston A. Baker‚ and William Lloyd Garrison. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave. New York: Penguin Books‚ Limited‚ 1982.
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MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM Frederick Augustus Washington Baily (Frederick Douglass)‚ was born a slave on the Holme Hill farm on Tuckahoe Creek‚ Talbot County‚ in Maryland in February 1817. His mother Harriet Bailey was also a slave but he didn’t know who was his father. Mr. Douglass suggests that “his white master may have been his father”. He mentions having seen his mother a few times at nights in Aunt Katy’s kitchen. Ms. Hill was assigned to work in a field about twelve miles away and was not
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Written Word Used as Propaganda The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave is an account of Frederick Douglass’ life written in a very detached and objective tone. One might find this normal for a historical account of the events of someone’s life if not for the fact that the narrative was written by Frederick Douglass himself. Frederick Douglass used this tone purposefully in an attempt to use his narrative as propaganda to convince others to join in the abolitionist’s
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America was expanding in the early 1800s‚ politically‚ economically‚ and socially. Many movements occurred during this time‚ particularly from 1825 to 1850‚ aimed to better laws‚ institutions‚ and society and to spread democracy overall. Although the religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements in the United States sought to expand democratic ideals‚ the temperance and abolitionist reform movements ended up limiting democracy. The religious‚ penal‚ education‚ and feminist reform movements
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for free blacks‚ who lived in an anomalous condition of “freedom” without citizenship and with constant threat of discrimination‚ violence‚ and abduction to be sold into slavery. There were some bitter conflicts over specific strategies. Though Garrison and most blacks favored immediate abolition‚ many whites
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proliferation of new institutions during the antebellum era demonstrated 16. Horace Mann 17. Public schools 18. The American Colonization Society 19. Liberia 20. An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World 21. David Walker 22. William Lloyd Garrison 23. Thoughts on African Colonization 24. Antislavery movement’s mass constituency 25. The Fourth of July to Frederick Douglass 26. The “gag rule” 27. Dorothea Dix 28. Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls 29. “Social freedom”
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