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Thursday, November 09, 2006

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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