notes from 6th Nov
Sorry its late i forgot my password and the blogger would not send it to me
Slavery
- In the North many free blacks were losing their jobs to Immigrants that worked for lower wages
- Some even claim that whites and blacks are seperate species altogether
- Many Blacks had been deported after gaining their freedom to Liberia but most had no desire to go to africa
- Northern Wigs question racism and by 1804 every northern states had acted against slavery
- Latin American countries freed their slaves and in 1830 England followed suit and ended slavery in Jamaica, Bermuda, and the Caribbean
Voters
- Property qualifications were droped for white males
Politics
- Democrats incorporate racism into their political agenda and were for it
- Wigs opposed slavery
Abolitionists
- The religious revivals encouraged the anti-slavery movement
- In 18301 the American Colonization Society proposed gradual emancipation and deportation to Africa for slaves
- William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of The Liberator
- He stated that slavery was a sin and should be stopped immediately
- INn 1833 Garrison helped form American Anti-Slavery Society, they wanted a stop to slavery and any racisist activities in America
- In 1835 they launched a postal campagain where they flooded the postal system with letters opposing slavery
- Congress passes a Gag Rule to prevent the discussion of racism at its meetings
Woman's Rights
- Woman's right supporters were stirred by the Anti-Slavery movement and the first women's rights convention met in Seneca Falls New York in 1848
- Feminists Abolitionists spoke angrily due to the fact that they were not permitted to Speak at Anti-Slavery meetings
- Wrote the Documents of Sentient and Resolutions which declared all women and men equal
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