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Resettlement of African Americans back in Africa
More than 100 Anti-slavery socities wanted to have blacks resettle back in Africa. Even though this idea was to protect the lives of the blacks from hostile Americans, most free blacks considered America their home. So, only about 1,400 blacks went back to Africa from 1820-1830. This is important today because it shows some respect for blacks. -
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Course of Abolition from 1820 - 1844
Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989. Print. -
David Walker's Fight and the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Walker was a free black who wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. This book emphasized his belief that blacks should fight against slavery and the right to be free instead of waiting for slave owners to free them. Walker's ideas would be used later on in the Civil Rights Movement. This is important today because it is a good lesson to everyone, that us people should stand up for ourselves. -
Slaves work in mills and in ships
By 1830, cotton wealth attracted many Southern whites into farming, which then made a shortage of people to do work such as mining and lumber. As a result, many slaves were put to work in mills or on ships to do these jobs. -
William Lloyd Garrsion creates the Liberator
Garrison created the paper to deliver a message that we should free the slaves immediately and not pay the slaveholders for releasing them. This idea was called emancipation. -
Nat Turner's rebellion
Nat Turner, a talented preacher, beleived that slaves should be free. He had been born into slavery in 1800. In 1831, Turner judged an eclipse in the sun to be a signal for action. He had about 80 followers, and they attacked whites, killing nearly 60 whites before being captured again. This is important today because it shows that violence is not a good way to fight. -
The vote for slavery in Virginia
The dabate over the future for slavery in Virginia was to move toward abolition or not. The vote lost 73-58, against abolition. This was mostly because the vote was balanced to eastern slaveholders in the state rather than non-slaveholders in the western part of the state. This is important today because we realize not to be unfairly racist. -
Gag Rule
Southern representatives created what is know as a gag rule in 1836. This meant that citizens sumbitting petitions were deprived of their right to have them heard. This rule was eventually taken away in 1844. -
Frederick Douglass and his desire to end slavery begin
Frederick Douglass, who was born in to slavery and then escaped from his owner, published his autobiography in 1845 called Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. -
Bibliography citation
Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989. Print.
