Abolitionist+Movement

= Abolition Movement  =

**Abolitionist:** Person who supported the end of slavery.
**Frederick Douglass** was an abolitionist.
 * John Brown** was an abolitionist.

Slavery existed in the United States during "Growth and Change." The United States was split about the right of citizens to own slaves. Abolitionists worked to end slavery in the United States. While the Civil War did not begin as a war to abolish slavery, debates about slavery deeply divided our nation. The South favored the expansion of slavery into the new territories. The North opposed allowing slavery in the new territories.

media type="custom" key="665971" Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) was a former slave who escaped to the North and became a famous abolitionist orator and writer. William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper, //The Liberator//. The Underground Railroad was a system of escape routes leading slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman led over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
 * Frederick Douglass**

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**John Brown** " //If there is no struggle, there is no progress. . . .The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. .//. " Re-write in your own words?

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