The 1820s to the 1850s

• Abolition• Abolitionists• Emancipation• American Anti-Slavery Society

Abolition and abolitionists

The historian Eric Foner, has claimed that the abolition movement was the foundation of virtually all social justice movements in America. It led to the first anti-war movement against the U.S. invasion and occupation of Mexico—why would the abolitionists be the start of this first anti-war protest?

Question break!

Cotton and its in impact on slavery

QUESTION: Why would slaves be smuggled into the country?

Rural v. Urban Slavery

Felix Darley’s painting of Nat Turner, 1863

Resistance, Retaliation, and Response