Anti-Slavery Movements

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Hayley Nelson AAS 1002 24 September 2023 Anti-Slavery Movements 1. What conclusions did you draw from the philosophical conflict between the militant abolitionists and those who advocated for peaceful means of abolishing slavery? What facts about slavery would support the arguments for militant armed response or the arguments for peaceful resolution? The abolitionists saw slavery as an abomination and an affliction on the United States, making it their goal to eradicate slave ownership. They sent petitions to Congress, ran for political office and inundated people of the South with anti-slavery literature. Northerners were abolitionists which means they wanted to get rid of slavery. The Southerners wanted to keep slavery because it was the main source for their economy. 2. The ACS and the New England Anti-Slavery Society held different philosophical positions on the integration of free and enslaved Blacks into American Society. Briefly describe each of their positions. Who were some of their members? The American Colonization Society was an organization that attempted to start a colony in West Africa where free blacks could return to their homeland to live. The New England Anti-Slavery Society was the first anti slavery association among white activists to demand immediate, unconditional abolition of slavery and equal rights for black Americans, without compensation to the slave owners and without colonization of the freed slaves. 3. Some scholars argued that slavery was a pre-capitalistic enterprise while others argued that it was a paternalistic compromise. Recent proponents of teaching about slavery argue that the enslaved learned valuable skills that personally benefited them. Which description--pre-capitalistic enterprise or paternalistic compromise--might be closest to the idea that slaves derived benefits of skills as slaves? Explain your reasoning for your response. I would say slavery was more of a precapitalist enterprise because although some masters had taught and provided for the slaves, a majority of them did not or was solely doing that for their own personal game and so the slaves would not want to leave them. 4. How did the Underground Railroad work--where did it go? what sustained it? and who were the people who made it work? The Underground Railroad was not an actual railway and it was not underground. It was a network of individuals, both whites and free Blacks, who collaborated to assist fugitives from slave-owning states in getting to northern states and Canada, where slavery was prohibited; Issac Hopper, Harriet Tubman, John Brown.
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