The struggle for Freedom

 

By Grace

 

 

 

            From 1830 through 1840 the abolitionists tried to end slavery but it grew.  There were abolitionist in the north and south black and white.

 

Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm started a newspaper about abolitionist called Freedoms Journal.  A few years later William Lloyd Garrison also started a newspaper about abolitionist called The Liberator.  Most freed blacks gave money to the newspaper and to support the Under Ground Rail Road.  Abolitionists were also known as commonly known as Quakers Free blacks joined whites in creating American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.  In 1860 500,000 free blacks lived in the United States they faced discrimination in both north and south. 

 

Some abolitionists worked secretly who guided runaways who were “conductors”.  The most famous conductor was Harriet Tubman she escaped slavery and returned to the south 19 times to lead others to freedom!  The Under Ground Rail Road had a series of stops and hiding spots called “stations.”  Most slaves went north to Canada, Philadelphia & Chicago or south to Mexico, Florida & Caribbean.   

 

Frederick Douglas a freed slave talked to the white people about slavery and abolitionists. Sojourner Truth also escaped slavery and also spoke about slavery and abolitionists. Sojourner Truth real name is Isabella Van Wagner. She traveled a lot and changed her name to Sojourner which means traveler and Truth. She believed that slavery could be ended peacefully.  

 

On October 16, 1859 John Brown and a group of seized government storehouse at Harpers Ferry in West Virginia was filled with guns. John planed to give to slave so the slaves could fight for freedom. But John was caught. The nation was soon to be divided by the Civil War.

 

 

 

Resources:

 

 

 

Houghton Mifflin Company~ Chapter 12 lesson 2 pg. 424-427

 

Harcourt Horizons~ Chapter 12 lesson 2 pg. 444-449