Chapter 16
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sojourner Truth | Woman who as a former slave and a prominent opponent of slaver and a powerful advocate of women's rights. She gave a famous speech in favor of women's rights known as the "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech. |
| Martin Delaney | One of the few Black leaders to take seriously the notion of mass re-colonization of Africa. |
| Frederick Douglas | Former slave and well-known abolitionist. Author of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and publisher of The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper. |
| Peculiar Institution | Euphemism often used by Southerners to refer to slavery. |
| Denmark Vesey | A free Black man who led an ill-fated slave rebellion in Charleston in 1822. |
| Plantation System | Agricultural method that uses large estates along with indentured servants or slaves to produce a cash crop. This was particularly prominent in the South with producing rice, tobacco, and (later) cotton. An imitation of the feudal system. |
| Anti-slavery southerners | Most prevalent in the western counties of Virginia and eastern Tennessee (mountain whites) as well as in the steel-making regions of Alabama - areas that did not grow cotton. |
| Slave Revolts | Stono, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, etc... Slave rebellions were few and far between. They were violently repressed. |
| Theodore Weld | Prominent abolitionist of the 1830s. Author of American Slavery As It Is. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Militant abolitionist. Publisher of The Liberator. Called on the North to secede from the South. |
| Elijah P. Lovejoy | Abolitionist newspaper editor and minister from southern Illinois. Printing press was destroyed four times. Killed by a mob in 1837. "The Martyr Abolitionist." |
| Liberator | Militantly abolitionist weekly edited by William Lloyd Garrison from 1831-1835. Had a relatively small circulation but achieved national notoriety due to Garrison's strong arguments. |
| Gag Resolution | Rule that required all anti-slavery petitions in the House of Representatives to be tabled without debate. An attack against the right of petition. John Quincy Adams fought against the resolution for years. |
| Nat Turner | Led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. He said that he had seen a vision in which he was commanded to start the rebellion. The rebellion killed 60+ White people. Eventually he was arrested and executed. |
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