HY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: American Colonization Society, William Lloyd Garrison, Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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4/6/17- abolitionism and the defense of slavery: antislavery through the 1820"s. Hamitic myth: group of preachers founded the american colonization society. Instead of thinking about the future of slavery they realized that without slavery there was no future at all. This was because of the emergence of the abolition movement and the vocal radicals in the north. Emergence of abolitionism: abolitionism didn"t have as many followers as the many other reform groups. Was the most significant and had the biggest impact. Underlying it were a lot of the ideas that underlined the many other reform movements. Believed it was a sin and a restriction on liberty of slaves and hurt not only black. Americans but the whole country: groups became more hostile as time went on, more than ever before, david walker. Ran an apparel store that appealed to black sailors mostly.
