Slavery Crisis in Virginia
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US History [1]
Free Blacks and African American Abolitionism: free Blacks struggled to define their freedom; set up their own communities primarily in Upper South states, and along Atlantic and Gulf coasts saw colonization Liberia as an attack on their hard earned place in US society - many were unwilling to go to a place they had never before seen insisted Whites should make US a fairer place, rather than spend money shipping them out David Walker - had come from South Carolina, saw Vesey?s Rebellion, moved to Boston to open a used clothing store open to AA. Became a Black Mason; organization that fought against slavery Freedom's Journal - newspaper published by Black people - anticolonization