Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0035 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Abolition and Seneca Falls
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The idea
Colonization proposed moving Black Americans to Africa; abolitionists scorned it. Garrison's immediatism demanded an end to slavery now, by moral suasion, in a nation of equals. Slave rebellions horrified North and South alike.
In practice
The Liberator's masthead: two Americas, one free.
Where people slip
Abolition seeded feminism: at Seneca Falls in eighteen forty-eight, the first women's rights conference signed a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.
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