Chapter 16: The South and Slavery Controversy
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| region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves; the "Black belt" emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west | ||
| Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the death of sixty whites and raised fears among white Southerners of further uprisings | ||
| Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard; the ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial; former president John Quincy Adams aruged their case before the Supreme Court, securing their eventual release | ||
| reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement inteded as a haven for emancipated slaves | ||
| West-African nation founded as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s | ||
| Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for immediate emancipation of all slaves | ||
| Abolitionist society founded by William Loyd Garrison, who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery; by 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters | ||
| vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowed abolitionist Frederick Douglass | ||
| originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery | ||
| prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals; driven throught eh House by pro-slavery Southerners, the gag resoultion passed every year for eight years, eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams | ||
| visionary black preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia, killing sixty Virginians | ||
| member of Parilament and an evenagelical Christan reformer who unchained the slaves in the West Indies | ||
| abolitionist who appeadled with a special power and directness in his rural audiences of untutored farmers; preached antislavery goespel, assembled a propaganda pamphlet, "American Slavery as It Is" in (1839) | ||
| most conspicious and most vilified of the abolitionists, published "The Liberator" in Boston, helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society; favored Northern secession and renounced politics | ||
| freed black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights | ||
| one of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of mass recolinization of Africa; visited West Africa's Niger Valley seeking a suitable site for relocation | ||
| born a slave but escaped to the North and became a prominent black abolitionist; gifted orator, writer, and editor; published "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" |
