Chapter 8 section 3 “The Anti-Slavery Movement” page 278-279

Key terms

freedman – a former or freed slave

Nat Turner – led a Virginia slave revolt in 1831 that killed nearly 60 people before he and his

followers were caught and executed

abolition movement – reform movement for the abolition or end of slavery

William Lloyd Garrison – editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator

Frederick Douglass – escaped slave who spoke passionately about his experiences, also

published in his autobiography Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Gag Rule – 1836 law that prohibited the debate or discussion of slavery in Congress

Questions

1. Describe the daily life of a slave.

2. What was the Underground railroad?

3. What were the effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

4. What was the American Colonization Society? What were their goals?

5. How did The Liberator appeal to readers’ sense of moral correctness?

6. Why did Southerners argue that slave labor was superior?

7. Why did Northerners resist abolition?