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The Crisis of the American Republic c.1840-1877

Abolitionism: Garrison, Stowe and John Brown

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American Colonization Society and explain why abolitionists rejected it and gag rule.

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Describe the American Colonization Society and explain why abolitionists rejected it.

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Who founded The Liberator, and in what year?

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How were abolitionists received in the North itself?

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  1. 1

    How did the abolitionism of the 1830s differ from earlier anti-slavery feeling?

    Model answer

    It demanded immediate and uncompensated emancipation as a moral duty, rather than gradual emancipation or the removal of freed people to Africa.

  2. 2

    Describe the American Colonization Society and explain why abolitionists rejected it.

    Model answer

    A body that proposed settling freed Black Americans in Liberia; abolitionists and most free Black northerners rejected it as a scheme to remove them from a country that was their own.

  3. 3

    Who founded The Liberator, and in what year?

    Model answer

    William Lloyd Garrison, who brought out the first number in 1831.

  4. 4

    Summarise Garrison's position on the Constitution and on politics.

    Model answer

    He held the Constitution to be a pro-slavery covenant, publicly burning a copy, and refused to vote or stand for office, relying instead on moral persuasion.

  5. 5

    Explain what the American Anti-Slavery Society was.

    Model answer

    The national organisation founded in 1833 which flooded the country with tracts and petitions, and which split in 1840 over the place of women and over political action.

  6. 6

    Why was Frederick Douglass so effective an advocate?

    Model answer

    He had escaped from slavery himself, so his lectures and his published narrative answered the common claim that abolitionists knew nothing of the institution they attacked.

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