HIST 2055 Chapter : Religion Antebellum America
Document Summary
11 nov. 2014: spiritual and social response, urbanization/crime rate increase/free labor, northerners celebrate virtue through free labor. Interpreting the message: first great awakening: actions don"t matter; pre-destined, second great awakening: actions do matter, eternity, in order for religion to be important, it must be lived, women"s rights, temperance and abolition challenge social order. Americans are only capable of slave work: runs the liberator, newspaper out of boston, immediast movement- combination of douglas and william"s, argues that abolition needs to happen now, establishes neass and aass efforts. Characteristics of abolitionists: loud, articulate, newspapers- the liberator. Southern assumptions of nat turner"s rebellion, 1831: slavery is unjust and african americans will not stand for it, slavery still works, african americans are bing corrupted by the ideas of. This is their moment: david walker, anti-slavery activist in the south, born a free-person of color, writes walker"s appeal , offers an end to slavery, eventually moves north and tailors for sailors, or navy, and.
