Abolitionist Persuasions

  1. Gradualism of Quaker Benjamin Lundy and Amercan Colonization Society
  2. Immediatism of William Garrison and American Anti-Slavery Society
  3. Direct Action of Gerit Smith and the Liberty party
  4. Violence of John Brown, provoking slave uprising at Harpers Ferry

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1. Gradualism

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1773 - Phillis Wheatley's "Poems" published in Britain

1775 - Pennsylvania Society (Quakers; B. Franklin)
1777 - Vermont 1st northern state to abolish slavery

1787 - Northwest Ordinance prohibits slavery north of the Ohio River
1794 - France abolishes slavery in West Indies

1808 - slave trade abolished
1815 - Paul Cuffe - wealthy black New Bedford shipper

1817 - American Colonization Society founded

1821 - Quaker Benj. Lundy's "Genius of Universal Emancipation"

1822 - Liberia purchased - became independent republic 1846

1823 - British Anti-Slavery Society
1825 - Charles Finney's Great Revival

1827 - Samuel Cornish starts"Freedom's Journal"

1829 - David Walker writes "Appeal" - was self-taught black

1829 - Mexico ends slavery
1830 - National Negro Convention movement

2. Immediatism

Nat Turner rebellion

1831 - Nat Turner rebellion Aug. 13-23 killed 57 whites in Virginia

1831 - British emancipation of West Indies

1831 - William L. Garrison breaks from Lundy and starts "Liberator"

1832 - Garrison starts New England Anti-Slavery Society
1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society founded by immediatists

1833 - Lane Seminary and Oberlin Institute in Ohio

1833 - Thomas Morris elected Ohio senator - Democrat

Angelina Grimke

1833 - James Birney moves from Alabama to Kentucky

1833 - Prudence Crandall school case in Canterbury, CT.

1833 - Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society - Lucretia Mott

1835 - Gerrit Smith organized NYAS at Peterboro after mob broke up Utica meeting
1835 - Senate passes mail censorship law to stop AASS
1835 - SC, LA re-enact Negro Seaman's Law

1836 - Congress ends right of petition over opp. of John Q. Adams

1837 - Elijah Lovejoy murdered in Alton, Illinois - 1st martyr

1837 - Pastoral Letter closes churches to Grimke sisters because they spoke in public

1838 - Garrison joins Henry Wright's Peace Convention
Cinque addressing slaves

3. Direct Action

1838 - Lucretia Mott's Free Produce Society
1839 - Amistad case - revolt led by Cinque on slave ship from Havana - seized by U.S. - CT judge Andrew Judson set all free
1840 - schism between Garrison and gradualists

1840 - Liberty Party wins 7069 votes for James Birney

1840 - World Anti-Slavery Convention in London
1841 - Fred. Douglass hired by Garrison as lecturer

1841 - Creole revolt on slave ship from Virginia to New Orleans
1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty tightened enforcement of the Atlantic slave trade ban

1842 - Rev. Charles Torrey, "father of the Underground Railroad" imprisoned in Maryland and dies
1842 - Prigg v. PA case overturns 1793 law

Reward offered for runaways

1843 - railroads integrate after "ride-ins"
1844 - Congress restores right of petition
1845 - Fred. Douglass published his "Narrative"- accurate, factual
1845 - Cassius Clay published True American in Kentucky
1846 - Gerrit Smith's land grants in New York
1846 - American Missionary Association founded by Tappans
1847 - Douglass published "North Star" paper in Rochester

1847 - Henry D. Thoreau jailed for not paying taxes to pro-slave government
1848 - Free Soil Party wins 291,263 for Van Buren

1848 - Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights

1850 - Fugitive Slave Law
John Brown
1851 - Gerrit Smith's Radical Abolition Party to replace Liberty Party
1852 - Fred. Douglass refused dining room service in Alliance, OH hotel on way to Free Soil convention - began boycott
1854 - Anthony Burns removed from Boston by force
1855 - Boston schools desegregated by Charles Sumner and black layer Robert Morris

4. Violence

1856 - John Brown's Pottawatomie, KA massacre
1859 - John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid supported by "Secret Six"

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revised 11/23/03 by Schoenherr | Civil War