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CITIZENSHIP PROJECT DUE
DECEMBER 1st!
•You must tell me what you’re doing by the end of THIS week!
•Interviews MUST have contact information too!
ARE WE FREE?Abolition
North vs. SouthMob Action
Live Footage…Watch
carefully…it goes fast!
Answer on your note sheet (ignore the parts with an “A”)
THE ABOLITIONISTS
William Lloyd Garrison
Circle one: He is a…
abolitionist/ slave /plantation owner
Wants Complete & Total Abolition of Slavery
Wrote ANTI slavery newspaper– The Liberator
Fredrick Douglas• Son of a slave &
a white man
• Bought his freedom for $600 from British
• Began the Civil Rights Movement
What Up
Harriet “tubs” Tubmancheck all that apply:
□ Passionate leader of abolition□ Abolitionist□ Guide on the Underground RR□ Former Slave□ Tubs□ Moses
Bring it Chumps!
• Spy, Scout
• Brutally beaten - shows fierceness of AA
• Continued to be a spy for the Union (n) army!
• Helps start the UGRR!
Underground R. R.1850s
• Secret pathways for slaves to escape to the north.
• Tubs = “Conductor” (but others too)
• Timid slaves found courage w/ her.
• By 1860 - 100,000 Slaves escaped!
How did they find their way?!?
Code Phrases:• Heaven: Canada.
• Load of Potatoes: Fugitive slaves the farmers would hide under the crops in their wagons.
• Baggage: Fugitive slaves carried by the Underground Railroad worker
• "The wind blows from the South today": This told UGRR workers that there were fugitive slaves in the area.
With these words they
were able to RUNAWAY
From slavery
Drinking Gourd: The North Star.
"The river bank makes a mighty good road": This told slaves that if they were to try and escape, they should walk in the river because dogs couldn't track their scents through water.
"The dead trees will show you the way": A reminder to slaves that, if the North Star wasn't visible, moss grew only on the north side of dead trees, so they could tell which way to walk.
"Left foot, peg foot": Footprints left by a wooden-legged UGRR worker as guidelines to the path to freedom.
"The river ends between two hills": Visual directions to the Ohio River
Also…Songs! “FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD”
When the sun comes back, and the first Quail calls,
Follow the drinking gourd, For the old man is waiting to carry you to
freedom If you follow the drinking gourd.
The riverbank will make a very good road,
The dead trees show you the way.
Left foot, peg foot traveling on,
Following the drinking gourd.
Follow the drinking gourd, Follow the drinking gourd, For the old man is waiting
to carry you to freedom If you follow the drinking
gourd.
The river ends between two hills, Follow the drinking
gourd, There's another river
on the other side, Follow the drinking
gourd.
Follow the drinking gourd, Follow the drinking gourd, For the old man is waiting
to carry you to freedom If you follow the drinking gourd.
Where the great big river meets the little river, Follow the drinking
gourd. For the old man is waiting
for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinking gourd.
If the North is AGAINST slavery….
why didn’t they all help runaway slaves?!?
Reason 1
Fugitive Slave Laws: 20-50 yrs in jail or killed.
CREAM!Reason #2:
“Neck Hair’s” Back & The Country Starts to divide even more…
“The present condition of the 2 races reversed, They and their Northern allies are the MASTERS,
and we the SLAVES. “ John C. Calhoun (Senator South Carolina)
“We are divorced North from South…because we HATED each other so. “
– Mary Chestnut
What happened in
Alton, IL?
First Time White Guy killed for
Slavery!• Elijah P. Lovejoy would NOT stop
printing
• Life Threatened
• Mob of Pro-slavery followers attacked him
• Killed Lovejoy & dumped him (and his printing press) into the river
WHY DID
HE DIE?
Cause
he’s…
the North’s reaction to Lovejoy’s death:
• MAD!
• Not a White Guy!?!?
• TONS in N turning abolitionist now!
• Will Mobs take over!?!?
You Took this too far Southerners!Elijah was WHITE!
And my Friend!You & your mobs better watch your
back!
Southern Reaction: 2 different ones
#1 Ha Ha! Yankees!#2 Oh Crap! We
killed a white dude….(ps…I’m crying)
JOHN BROWNdevotes his life to the
“Consecration of Slavery”?
John Brown: aka: pyscho abolitionist!
NOT Abe Lincoln but
a “time bomb”!
Remember me, I do some pretty messed up stuff
in a couple of years!
The North & South are
on the Verge of
War…
3-2-1
3-2-1on note card before you leave
3: People you learned about today & 1 thing they did
2: code words or phrases used in UGRR
1: thing you like about us history
