Notes Chap 14 Sec 4 Abolition and Woman's RIghts

Abolition and Women’s Rights

The spread of democracy leads to calls for freedom for slaves and more rights for women. 

Abolitionists Call for Ending Slavery

• Abolition—movement to end slavery, begins in the late 1700s 
• Abolitionists demand a law ending slavery in the South
• William Lloyd Garrison publishes an abolitionist newspaper 
• John Quincy Adams introduces anti-slavery amendment 

Eyewitnesses to Slavery

• Frederick Douglass speaks about his own experience of slavery 
• Publishes autobiography (1845), does lecture tour, buys his freedom 
• Sojourner Truth flees enslavement, lives with Quakers who free her 

The Underground Railroad

• Underground Railroad—aboveground escape routes from South to North 
• Runaway slaves travel on foot, also take wagons, boats, trains 
• Henry Brown escapes slavery by being packed in a box, shipped North
• Runaways usually travel by night, hide by day in places called stations 

Harriet Tubman

• People who lead runaways to freedom are called conductors
• Harriet Tubman is a famous conductor 
• Escapes slavery (1849), makes 19 journeys to free enslaved persons 

• Enemies offer reward for her capture, is never caught 

Notes Chap 11 Sec 2 Plantations and Slavery

Plantations and Slavery Spread Section 2
Cotton Boom

* Whitney's cotton gin (short for engine) made the cotton-cleaning far more efficient.
* A worker can now clean up 50 pounds of cotton per day.
* The cotton gin helped set the South on a different course of develop,enter from the North.

Southern life changed because of The cotton boom:

1. it triggered a mass move westward.
2. Planters grew more cotton rather than other goods.
3. More Native Americans groups were driven of Southern Land.

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* After 1808, it became illegal to import Africans for use in slavery. The trading of slaves in the country increased.


* Slaveholders with large plantations were the wealthiest and most powerful people in the South.


* Most white Southern farmers owned few or no slaves.

Roots Episode 2:


* Kunta has been there for about two months.
* Learns hoe to speak English by Fiddler when he speaks to him.
* Junta catches a cricket and tells it to tell his family that he's going to find a way to escape.
* Kunta broke his leg chains with a piece of broken metal he found. Fiddler lets him go when he realizes he broke off his chains.

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* Spiritual often contained coded messages.
* The cruelest part of slavery was the sale of family members were seperated from their mother.

Slave Rebellion

* The most famous rebellion was led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831.
* August 21 (Turner and 70 followers killed 53 white men, women and children)
* turner's men were mostly captured when their ammo went out and 16 were killed. Turner got caught and hung.
* Resulted in harsher slave codes.
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