Slavery and Abolition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abolition | the call to outlaw slavery |
| antebellum | before the 'war' in the South |
| gag rule | prevented debate on the slave issue |
| Nat Turner | a slave preacher who led a slave revolt killing nearly 60 whites |
| Frederick Douglass | an escaped slave that became a well respected speaker that worked to outlaw slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | editor of the 'Liberator' an abolitionist paper from Boston |
| The North Star | a anti-slavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass |
| I will be heard | Finishes the quote by Garrison, "I am in ernest---I will not equivocate---I will not excuse---I will not retreat a single inch---and ___ ___ ___ ____. |
| emancipation | the freeing of the slaves with no payment to slaveholders. |
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