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Unit 6: Slavery and Emancipation
Chapter 14: Slavery Divides the Nation
Lesson 2: Speaking Out Against Slavery
 
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The Abolition Movement

Many people in the North and South spoke out against slavery and were known as . Newspapers like and The North Star, which was started by Frederick Douglass, helped to spread the word of the abolitionists. Two sisters, Angelina and Sara Grimke, were Southern whites who were the first women to speak for abolition. wrote about the lives of the enslaved in her novel .

Escaping Slavery

The was a major escape route for enslaved people. It was a system of secret routes that had "," or people who guided the slaves, or "passengers." The "president of the Underground Railroad" was Levi Coffin, a Quaker from Indiana. escaped to freedom on the Underground Railroad and became a conductor who led many enslaved families to freedom.

Abolition and Women's Rights

Along with the rise of the abolition movement came the rise of the . Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the on July 19, 1848 to discuss women's rights. Born into slavery, spoke against slavery and for women's rights.

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