Slavery_part2_5

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CHAPTER 3
LESSON 2

VOCABULARY
Abolitionist

someone who wanted to end or abolish slavery Discrimination unfair treatment of particular groups of people Underground Railroad series of escape routes and hiding places to help bring slaves out of the South

THINK ABOUT IT
Use

abolitionist and Underground Railroad in a sentence An abolitionist might have worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad

ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT
Some

people felt slavery was needed to grow cash crops such as cotton and tobacco Others believed it was wrong to enslave people

ABOLITIONISTS
Abolitionists

included people in the North and South whites and free blacks men and women They wrote pamphlets and traveled across the country giving speeches against slavery

FAMOUS ABOLITIONISTS
William

Lloyd Garrison printed an antislavery newspaper call The Liberator He demanded that all enslaved people be freed I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD

FAMOUS ABOLITIONISTS
Frederick

Douglass a well known abolitionist that escaped from slavery Was a writer and often spoke to white audiences about slavery

FAMOUS ABOLITIONISTS
Sojourner

Truth she had been born into slavery Spoke in favor of abolition and women s rights suffrage

FAMOUS ABOLITIONISTS
Sarah

Grimke and Angelina Grimke sisters who were from South Carolina and daughters of a slave owner As adults they moved north and spoke out against slavery

FREE BLACKS
African Americans

free or enslaved faced discrimination in the South and the North What is discrimination Discrimination is the unfair treatment of particular groups of people

FREE BLACKS IN THE SOUTH
In

the South state laws limited the rights of free blacks example free blacks in the south could not travel without permission or meet in groups without a white person present

For

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NORTH
Even

though they were free African Americans in the North also faced discrimination However it was legal for them to travel freely organize groups and publish newspapers This made it possible for the free blacks in the North to work openly against slavery

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
What

is the Underground Railroad A series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
The

Underground Railroad was not underground and it was not really a railroad Do you think The Underground Railroad is an appropriate name for this series of escape routes Why or why not

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Runaways

the people who fled slavery could head for the North and Canada or go south to Florida Mexico or the Caribbean Often they walked at night Also sometimes they hid in carts driven by members of the Underground Railroad

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Escaping

took tremendous courage Runaways who were caught would be punished and returned to slavery

STATIONS AND CONDUCTORS
Free

blacks gave money and did most of the work to support the Underground Railroad They gave food clothing and medical aid to runaways Also they hid them until it was safe to move on to the next location

STATIONS AND CONDUCTORS
Hiding

places were known as stations People called Conductors guided runaways to the next station

WHO WAS THE MOST FAMOUS CONDUCTOR
Harriet

Tubman was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

HARRIET TUBMAN
She

returned 19 times to the South to lead others to freedom Tubman helped approximately 300 people escape to the North Each time she returned to the South she risked being caught and enslaved again