Abolitionist Movement for kids: Background History
What were the historical events that led to the start of the
Abolitionist Movement? The United States were divided by Northern
states whose economy was based on manufacturing and
industrialization and the Southern States whose climate and natural
resources dictated an economy based on the labor intensive farming
of tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar cane and indigo.
The invention of the Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin had a huge impact on slavery turning cotton into a cash
crop in 1800, using the slave plantation system of farming.
The 1830 religious revival movement, referred to as the Second Great Awakening,
inspired the establishment of
Abolitionist (anti-slavery) movements in the North, in
which people called for emancipation on religious grounds. Other
reform movements later started to emerge
such as
Women's
suffrage.
What was the Goal of the Abolitionist Movement?
What was the goal of the Abolitionist Movement? The goal of the Abolitionist
Movement was to abolish slavery. Various methods were employed to
achieve their goal including:
● Protest
groups focused attention on slavery
●
Anti-slavery propaganda by Journalists and Authors such as
Anthony Benezet, David Walker, William Ellery Channing, William
Lloyd Garrison, Elijah Lovejoy, Frederick Douglass and Harriet
Beecher Stowe
● Political
pressure as Abolitionists petitioned legislatures
● Militant
Activists increased pressure including
John Brown’s raid at the
federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry
When did Abolitionist Movement begin?
When did Abolitionist Movement begin? The Abolitionist Movement was
established in 1830.
Up to the passing of the
13th Amendment slaves could
only escape the bondage of slavery via systems such as the
"Underground Railroad"
or to spend many years working towards their goal of
Buying
Freedom from Slavery.
Who were the leaders of the Abolitionist Movement?
The most famous leaders of the Abolitionist Movement, including
'Conductors' in the Underground Railroad were:
●
William Lloyd Garrison ●
Theodore Weld ●
Wendell Phillips ●
Elijah Lovejoy ●
Sojourner Truth ●
Hariett Tubman ●
Samuel and Florella Adair ●
William Still ● Dr.
John Doy ●
Anthony Benezet ● David
Walker ●
Ezekial and Mary Jane Colman ●
Samuel Wood ●
Harriet Beecher Stowe ● Rev.
Richard Cordley ● John
Speer ●
Frederick Douglass ●
William Ellery Channing ●
Samuel Newitt Wood ●
William Lloyd Garrison ● John
Greenleaf ●
Arthur and Lewis Tappan ● Susan
B. Anthony ● David
Ruggles ●
Calvin Fairbank ● Levi
Coffin ●
Captain Jonathan Walker ●
Josiah Henson ●
Erastus Hussey ● John
Fairfield ●
Abolitionist Movement Facts for kids
Interesting Abolitionist Movement Facts and Timeline for kids are
detailed below. The history of Abolitionist Movement is told in a
factual timeline sequence consisting of a series of short facts
providing a simple method of relating the famous people and events
of Abolitionism.
Abolitionist
Movement Timeline and Facts for kids
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 1:
1688: Dutch and
German Quakers published a pamphlet denouncing the
practice of slavery
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 2:
1725 - 1750:
The
First Great Awakening began in 1725, sparked by George Whitefield
bringing about activism in social reform
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 3:
1775: Abolitionist
Society - Anthony Benezet of Philadelphia founds the
world’s first abolitionist society.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 4:
1787: Benjamin
Franklin becomes the president of the Abolitionist
Society in 1787.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 5:
1791–1804: A slave revolt
started on the coffee and sugar plantations in the
French colony of Saint-Domingue in Haiti.
Over 60,000 people were
killed
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 6:
1793: The invention
of the Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin had a huge impact on slavery turning
cotton into a cash crop, using the slave plantation
system of farming
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 7:
1793: Fugitive Slave
Act outlaws any efforts to impede the capture of
runaway slaves.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 8:
1800: Gabriel Prosser
slave uprising in Virginia
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 9:
1803: Igbo Landing
slave uprising in Georgia
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Timeline Fact 10:
1805: Chatham Manor
slave uprising in Virginia
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 11:
1807: The British
Slave Trade Act was passed abolished the slave trade in
the British Empire, but not slavery itself.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 12:
1807: The United
States 'Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807',
was passed by Congress stating that no new slaves were
permitted to be imported into the United States which
ended the legality of the U.S. based transatlantic slave
trade.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
13: 1811: German Coast
Uprising slave uprising in Louisiana
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 14:
1815: George Boxley
slave uprising in Virginia
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Timeline Fact 15:
1820: The
Missouri Compromise
maintained the balance of slave states and free states
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 16:
1822: Denmark Vesey
slave uprising in South Carolina
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Timeline Fact 17:
1828: New York State
abolishes slavery
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Timeline Fact 18:
1829: David Walker's
Appeal, a radical anti-slavery document, was published
in September calling for slaves to rebel against their
owners
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 19:
1830:Ohio's "Black
Laws" encourage African-Americans to migrate to Canada,
establishing free colonies that became important on the
Underground Railroad
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 20:
1830: William Ellery
Channing writes the 'Discourse on Spiritual Freedom'
proposing that slaves should be set free, and their
owners paid from the sale of government owned lands.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 21:
1830: The
Second Great
Awakening begins leading to the establishment of the
reform movements in
which people advocated for emancipation on religious grounds.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 22:
1830: The Abolishment
Movement is established
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 23:
1830: Discourse on
Spiritual Freedom written by William Ellery Channing
proposing that slaves should be set free, and their
owners paid from the sale of government owned lands.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
24: 1830 The National
Negro Convention for freed African-Americans is held in
Philadelphia.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 25:
1831:
William Lloyd Garrison begins the publication of
the Liberator and proposes complete abolition of slavery without payment
to slave owners.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 26:
1831:
Nat Turner's Rebellion
took place in Southampton County, Virginia. It was
suppressed after just 48 hours.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 27:
1831: Bloody,
retaliatory acts of revenge were inflicted on slaves
throughout the South due to hysteria caused by Turner's
revolt
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 28:
1832: The terrible
acts of revenge led to the formation of groups dedicated
to helping slaves escape which become known collectively
as the
Underground Railroad
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 29:
1833: The American
Anti-slavery Society was formed
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Timeline Fact 30:
1834: Great Britain
abolishes slavery in its colonies
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 30:
1836: John Quincy
Adams, once President, was now a member of the House of
Representatives where he fought against slavery and the
'Gag
Rule'
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
31: 1837: Abolitionist
Elijah Lovejoy establishes the antislavery publication,
the Alton Observer and is murdered
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 32:
1838: Frederick
Douglass escapes slavery and becomes active in the
abolitionist cause.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 33:
1839: The
Amistad Slave Ship revolt
occured off the coast of Cuba on July 2, 1839. The
Africans were defended by John Quincy Adams
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 34:
1846: The
Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery in any territory taken from
Mexico, is passed in the House, but defeated in the
Senate. The Wilmot Proviso ends the Gag Rule opening the
subject of slavery in congress
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
35: 1847: Escaped Slave
Frederick Douglass begins publication of the North Star
in New York
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Timeline Fact
36: 1848: Mexican Cession
of western territory to the United States; North and
South resume struggle over the status of slavery in
federal territory.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
37: 1849: Harriet Tubman
Escapes and returns south at least 15 times to help
rescue several hundred other slaves
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
38: 1850:
Compromise of 1850. In exchange for California entering the Union as a
free state, northern congressmen accept a harsher
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
39: 1852: Abolitionist
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
300,000 copies are sold within a year of publication
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 40:
1854: The
Kansas-
Nebraska Act is passed allowing these two new
territories to choose whether to allow slavery according
to the principle of "popular sovereignty"
refer to
Popular Sovereignty and Slavery.
Many Abolitionists joined the newly formed
Republican Party.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 41:
1854 -1861:
Bleeding Kansas - A series of violent events involving
abolitionists (including
John Brown) and pro-Slavery factions that took place
in Kansas Territory
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 42:
1857:
Dred Scott
Court Decision which stated that slaves were not
citizens but the property of their owners and that
Congress has no authority to outlaw slavery in any
territory
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact
43: 1859:
Abolitionist John Brown
and his raid at the federal arsenal in Harper’s
Ferry, Virginia.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 44:
1860:
Southern
Secession begins. South Carolina secedes in December and
more states follow in 1861.
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 45:
1861: The beginning
of the Civil War -
also refer to
Causes of the
Civil War
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 46:
1863: Abraham
Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves
in Rebel territory are free on January 1, 1863
Abolitionist Movement
Timeline Fact 47:
1865: The
End of the
Civil War. The
13th Amendment is added to the
Constitution, abolishing slavery.
Abolitionist
Movement Timeline and Facts for kids
Also refer to the
Underground Railroad, the
Underground Railroad Symbols & Secret Codes and
Underground
Railroad Maps
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Segregation
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discrimination and segregation refer to detailed information on
Black Segregation History
and for brief, fast facts refer to
the
Segregation History Timeline.
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History for kids: Important People and Events
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refer to
Black History -
People and Events.
A useful resource for
teachers, kids, schools and colleges undertaking projects for the
Black History Month.
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