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black belt (mid 1800s) |
region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves; the "Black belt" emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west |
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Nat Turner’s rebellion (1831) |
Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the death of sixty whites and raised fears among white Southerners of further uprisings |
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Amistad (1839) |
Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard; the ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial; former president John Quincy Adams aruged their case before the Supreme Court, securing their eventual release |
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American Colonization Society (1817) |
reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement inteded as a haven for emancipated slaves |
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Liberia (1822) |
West-African nation founded as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s |
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The Liberator (1831-1865) |
Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for immediate emancipation of all slaves |
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American Anti-Slavery Society (1833-1870) |
Abolitionist society founded by William Loyd Garrison, who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery; by 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) |
vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowed abolitionist Frederick Douglass |
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Mason-Dixon line (1820s) |
originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery |
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Gag resolution (1836) |
prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals; driven throught eh House by pro-slavery Southerners, the gag resoultion passed every year for eight years, eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams |
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Nat Turner (1831) |
visionary black preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia, killing sixty Virginians |
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William Wilberforce (1833) |
member of Parilament and an evenagelical Christan reformer who unchained the slaves in the West Indies |
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Theodore Dwight Weld (1830s) |
abolitionist who appeadled with a special power and directness in his rural audiences of untutored farmers; preached antislavery goespel, assembled a propaganda pamphlet, "American Slavery as It Is" in (1839) |
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William Lloyd Garrison (1831-1850s) |
most conspicious and most vilified of the abolitionists, published "The Liberator" in Boston, helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society; favored Northern secession and renounced politics |
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Sojourner Truth (1840s) |
freed black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women’s rights |
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Martin Delany (1859) |
one of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of mass recolinization of Africa; visited West Africa’s Niger Valley seeking a suitable site for relocation |
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Frederick Douglass (late 1830s-1840s) |
born a slave but escaped to the North and became a prominent black abolitionist; gifted orator, writer, and editor; published "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" |
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