WGS 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: William Lloyd Garrison, Gradualism

• School: CMU
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 328
• Professor: Tara Mcarthy

Document Summary

American colonization society-1817: advocated a gradual end to slavery by resettling. African americans in africa or caribbean: proposed that southern slaveholders should receive monetary compensation, by 1830, sent 1,400 african americans to liberia and by 1860, 15,000 had settled there. As the north started to phase out slavery, the south became more reliant on slavery and the slave numbers in the south began to grow. Gradualism to abolitionism: during 1830s, a new generation of abolitionists appeared, these abolitionists called for immediate end to slavery without compensation to slave owners, william lloyd garrison: He is about the education side not the political. In 1833 he helps found the american. The society relies on donations and raising money-they sent out speakers to go around the north to try to educate about slavery and why it is morally wrong. The british had just ended slavery in the. Family were southern slaveholders (came from sc) Sarah grimke- letters on the condition of.