US History › Section G · Reform and a decade of crisis › Topic G.3
Addressing slavery: the abolition movement
By 1830 about two million people were enslaved in the United States. Americans who wanted slavery to end disagreed sharply about how, and the most radical answer, immediate abolition, provoked fury in the North as well as the South.
In this topic
- Three answers to slavery
- Colonization
- Walker's Appeal and the shock of 1831
- Worked example: comparing three answers to slavery
- Garrison and immediatism
- Tactics and the backlash
- Frederick Douglass and Black abolitionists
- Women in the movement
- Splits and political abolition
- Worked example: reading The Liberator's first issue
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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