how and why did abolitionism begin in america?
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How? People felt it was unfair that negros were being treated like animals.  Why? To end the inhumane treatment.  (Unless you are talking about something other than abolition of slavery.)
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See, I am in Third Grade and I love writing about the history of people that have helped me and my family see my dad was born into slavery and he also escaped to the North with Harriet Tubman. Sorry to get off track but here is a part of my report from my studies I learned that Harriet Tubman first escaped to the north by her self then she realized that if she only helped herself she would be selfish and so she made nineteen trips to the south and helped over three hundred people escape from slavery. Again sorry for getting off track but she was against slavery because she said that we should not be judged by the color of our skin and that it is very unfair for white people to own black people.My dad got some slave laws and here they are. \n\n                          Slave Laws\n1. No one was allowed to teach slaves how to read or write nor were they to be given books or pamphlets.\n\n2. Slaves were not allowed to buy or consume liquor without the written consent of their masters.\n\n3. Slave owners were required to feed and clothe their slaves and take care of their sick and elderly slaves. Failure to do so could result in a fine to the master.\n\n4. Slaves were not allowed to preach, except to their masters' slaves on their own plantation and in presence of white people.\n\n5. Any child who had one free parent and one slave parent was only free if the mother was the free parent.\n\n6. Slaves could not conduct business without a permit or own any personal prperty.\n\n7. Slaves were not allowed to own or have their possession weapons of any kind.\n\n8. The testimony of slaves in court was disallowed  exept in those cases involving other slaves.\n\n9. It was illegal to mistreat or kill a slave unless the slave resisted punishment.\n\n10. SLaves were not allowed to strike white men or to insult them in any way.\n\n11. Slaves were never allowed to enter into any kind of legal binding contract, including contracts of marriage.\n\n12. A slave who traveled away from his own plantation  had to have a pass to show as a means of identification to any white man who challenged him.\n\n13. Slaves were not allowed to swear, smoke or walk with a cane in public.\n\n14. Slaves had to step aside when whites passed them on a public street.\n\n15. It was illegal for mare than five slaves to gather together away from their own homes unless in the presence of white people.\n\n16. Slaves were not allowed to own their own animals, nor could they grow their own cotton; however, theey could  have thier own gardens if thier masters allowed.\n\n17. It was illegal for a master to work his slave in the field on Sundays exept as punishment or unless he paid them for their work.\n\nI hope all the above information helps you an your school project. E-mail me and tell me if this info works or not. My e-mail address is a-maknojia@sbcglobal.net.
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The North wanted to abolish slavery while the South wanted to expand slavery into the Northern terrritories.
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to end slavery. unite the nation
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Im pretty sure that Jamestown was founded to start the beginning of the new colonies that England planned to establish in America.  The men were sent over to set up the colony as it was only forest when they landed so that it would be suitable for women and children to come over later after they had made sure the area was safe and that there was proper shelter for them.
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois
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This was established shortly after the Articles of Confederation. A large number of northern states lagged behind the population of the South. Whites in the South then outnumbered the number of whites in the north. When it came to determining representation in the United States Congress, the southern states wished to count their slaves as well which would give them a largely disproportionate representation. The northern states argued that their state of life-long servitude made them less than men, and to count them as a man would undermine the entire reason for a slave system in the first place, thus opening the way for the radicals already calling for abolishment of slavery a hole to maneuver their agenda through Congress. The southern states, not wishing to give up any comfortable lead in the House then made a compromise that every slave would count as 3/5 of a man. This still gave southern states their majority (later to change despite large number of slaves) while giving northern states the breathing room necessary to enact legislation that was in their own interest.
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From http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Whatis.htm\n\n"No one knows exactly when it started, but there were certainly isolated cases of help given to runaways as early as the 1700s. By the early 19th century, there were organized flights to freedom."\n\nFrom http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/ugsum.htm\n\n"It was a clandestine operation that began during the colonial period, later became part of organized abolitionist activity in the 19th century, and reached its peak in the period 1830 - 1865. The story of the Underground Railroad is one of individual sacrifice and heroism in the efforts of enslaved people to reach freedom from bondage."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_Douglas#Abolitionist_Activities
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It started shortly after the civil war in one of the southern states that was opposed to blacks getting their freedoms. It was started by a bunch of Bigots who thought they were doing good by getting rid of freemen.
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I.Slavery in the Colonies\n\na. South Carolina and Georgia\naa. low country near the coast ideal for growing rice and indigo\nindigo - type of plant used in making a blue dye for cloth\nab. blacks made the majority of the population\nac. had more plantations with 100 slaves or more than any other area\nad. lack of interaction allowed slaves in GA & SC to preserve some of their culture\nGullah language – combination of English and African\nae. many came directly from Africa\naf. many had grown rice in Africa\nb. Virginia and Maryland\nba. lives of slaves in VA & MD differed from those in GA & SC in 4 ways:\n1. slaves in VA & MD were a minority of the pop.\n2. few slaves came to VA & MD directly from Africa\n3. slaves did different work\ngrowing tobacco not as labor intensive as rice or indigo\nslaves did other tasks\n4. slaves in VA & MD had more regular contact with European Americans\nbb. high cost of slaves led some planters to encourage their slaves to raise families\nbc. some male slaves in VA worked away from plantations as artisans or laborers\nc. New England and Middle Colonies\nca. by late 1700s, about 400,000 blacks lived in Southern Colonies\nonly about 50,000 in N. Eng. & Middle Colonies combined\nfarms were much smaller\ncb. most slaves lived in cities\n\n II.Free Blacks\n\na. free black pop. In Northern & Southern colonies did not grow significantly until after Revolutionary War\nb. some slave laws discourage people from freeing slaves\nba. owners had to get permission from the legislature\nc. law demanded that freed slaves leave a colony within six months of gaining freedom\nd. free blacks did much of the same kind of work as slaves but were probably worse off materially\ne. endured poor living conditions and more severe discrimination\n\nIII.Laws and Revolts\n\na. every colony passed its own slave laws\nb. settlers in Georgia were barred from owning slaves in 1735\nba. the ban was lifted in 1750\nc. Virginia passed its first major slave code in 1680\nca. SC in 1690, revised 1696, 1712, & 1740\nd. slaves could not go aboard ships or ferries or leave the town limits without a pass\ne. 1739, several dozen slaves near Charleston killed more than twenty whites in the Stono Rebellion\nea. burned an armory and started toward Spanish Florida were a small colony of runaway slaves lived\neb. Were captured and killed by armed planters\n\n\n IV.Diverse Colonial Economies\n\na. Southern Colonies\naa. economy based on growing staple crops\nab. tobacco exports Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware:\n1700, 32 mil. pounds\n1770, 83.8 mil. pounds\nac. African slaves supplied most of the labor\n1650, only about 500 Africans in Virginia (3% of  pop.)\n1700, enslaved Africans totaled 16,000 (28% of Pop.)\nad. Except for Charleston, SC & Williamsburg, VA the South had few cities\nb. Middle Colonies\nba. economy a mixture of farming and commerce\nbb. farm crops included grains such as wheat, barley, and rye\nbc. Populations of N.Y. & Pennsylvania ethnically diverse\nc. New England Colonies\nca. 1700s, N. Eng. Colonies consisted of small self-sufficient farms and towns dependent on long distance trade\ncb. shipping and fishing important industries\ntriangular trade -a series of indirect routes used to conduct trade between the colonies and England - the trade ultimately carried raw materials to England and manufactured goods to the colonies\n\n\n  V.Industrial Innovation in America\n\na. Eli Whitney\naa. developed idea of interchangeable parts\nab. invented the cotton gin\nb. the invention of the cotton gin had several effects\n1) profit of cotton skyrocketed\n~ in the early 1800s, cotton was America’s most profitable export\n2) southern planters began to depend solely on cotton\n3) planters looked for new lands to grow crops\n4) increased the demand for slavery\n\n   VI.The Economy of the South\n\na. while the northeast urbanized, the South remained rural\nb. less than 8% of white southerners lived in t
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??? Slavery has existed since the beginning of time. The N. American Slave trade existed for a very short time in comparison to other historical slave periods.\n\nThe United States has done an extraodinary thing in correcting a lot of its wrongs with Affirmative Action, Brown v The Topeka Board of Education, the Voting Rights Act and other measures.\n\nWe have a way to go, but of late we have the likes of the Oprahs, Powells, Woods, and other pioneers that we can point to and say America is overcoming.
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the economic status of the south allowed for industrial speculators to move in and increase the size of industrial manufacturies. Labor was cheap, people needed to eat. Slavery being abolished also meant that the labor force was decreased (whites now had to work for themselves).\n\nThe market went from agraian (many people producing much food) to industrial (few people roducing most of the nations food.) This meant jobs went from agriculture to industry.
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abolition\n\nslavery was abolished in america, formally, in 1863 with lincoln's emancipation proclamation.\n\nslaves were not actually freed, however, until the north beat the south in the civil war.  even after that, texas still had many slaves until june of 1865 - the day they were freed is celebrated as "juneteenth."
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============================================================\nJohn Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured.\n\nJohn Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. Led by a father who was vehemently opposed to slavery, the family moved to northern Ohio when John was five, to a district that would become known for its antislavery views.\n\nDuring his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. (He would father twenty children.) Working at various times as a farmer, wool merchant, tanner, and land speculator, he never was finacially successful -- he even filed for bankruptcy when in his forties. His lack of funds, however, did not keep him from supporting causes he believed in. He helped finance the publication of David Walker's Appeal and Henry Highland's "Call to Rebellion" speech. He gave land to fugitive slaves. He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers. \n\nIn 1847 Frederick Douglass met Brown for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts. Of the meeting Douglass stated that, "though a white gentleman, [Brown] is in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery." It was at this meeting that Brown first outlined his plan to Douglass to lead a war to free slaves.\n\nBrown moved to the black community of North Elba, New York, in 1849. The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." \n\nDespite his contributions to the antislavery cause, Brown did not emerge as a figure of major significance until 1855 after he followed five of his sons to the Kansas territory. There, he became the leader of antislavery guerillas and fought a proslavery attack against the antislavery town of Lawrence. The following year, in retribution for another attack, Brown went to a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers. Brown and his sons would continue to fight in the territory and in Missouri for the rest of the year.\n\nBrown returned to the east and began to think more seriously about his plan for a war in Virginia against slavery. He sought money to fund an "army" he would lead. On October 16, 1859, he set his plan to action when he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.\n\nBrown was wounded and quickly captured, and moved to Charlestown, Virginia, where he was tried and convicted of treason, Before hearing his sentence, Brown was allowed make an address to the court. \n\n\n\n. . . I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,
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fd was effective as a writer and speaker for the cause of abolition because:\n*he was a former slave and knew first hand the horors of the institution of slavery\n*he exposed the reality of slavery that th majority of americans were unaware of: beatings, selling of family members, rape, etc.\n\nd believed that reconstruction failed because the south, even though the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed, refused to accept the end to slavery.
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19th century? Hmm, a lot of stuff went down during the 1800s, the most important and impacting of which being the abolishment of slavery in the USA (1864). If this is a competition, I'm betting that A LOT of other people are already going to be presenting slavery abolishment.\n\nSo, for other ideas, there's the enormous Industrial Revolution (1830 and beyond), the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War (what led up to abolishment), the Gold Rush (I think that one was around 1845), Washington D.C. becoming the new national capital, the release of the 'Star-Spangled Banner'. Also, almost 30 new states became part of the USA during the 19th century, so maybe you could report on each (or almost each) one and state its impact on and significance in the development of America as a whole. Good luck in the competition!