HIST 1483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: William Lloyd Garrison, Slave Power, Nat Turner
Document Summary
(cid:498)the wolf by the ears(cid:499): abolitionism, pro-slavery, and anti-slavery. The dilemma: holding the wolf by the ears. Jefferson"s changing views: all men are created equal, we shall be pitied. Justice is on one scale and self preservation in the other. Abolitionism: striving to perfect the democracy: the emergence of abolitionist ideology. Second great awakening: emotional preachers would give emotional and passionate sermons, individual agency, perfectionism. They believed jesus would return to earth in 1838. Got people involved in organization and movements. Wanted to improve their society: reform and voluntary associations. The temperance movement: the african american vanguard. Used quotes from the declaration of independence against the white slave owners. Believed in violent means to end slavery. First african american newspaper intended to speak to african americans across the country to call them to rise up for immediate abolition. Wrote the liberator, a radical abolitionist newspaper. Burned the constitution in public because he thought that the government was corrupt.
