antebellum america

emancipation in the north

missouri compromise, 1820

• 36’30

cotton gin → cotton is more than 50% of American exports

most people don’t own slaves though

abolitionists

• william lloyd garrison

  • immediate emancipation, no compensation

  • slavery is a moral issue

  • blames constitution

  • the liberator (1831)

• frederick douglass

  • north star

• sojourner truth

• harriet tubman

  • underground railroad

almost everywhere around the world slavery has ended, but it continues in the south