Narrator:Grimk's appeal met the same reception as Garrison's pamphlets. William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff):You'll do it then? Doug Sloans Loveable Llamas, Historic Horses, and Etc. New Standards: Lessons, Readings, DBQs NEW Inquiry-Based STANDARDS is a complete social studies curriculum designed for middle school students of EARLY, HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES. But then, suddenly, his life collapsed: a series of business disasters plunged him deep into debt. Like many Northerners, Stowe was deeply disturbed by the Fugitive Slave Law. Three paper mills feeding three printing presses running 24 hours a day, and still the publisher couldn't keep up. I feel that I owe it to the suffering slave, and the deluded master, to do all that I can to overturn a system built up upon the bodies of my countrymen, and cemented by the blood and sweat and tears of my sisters in bonds. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these. Narrator:Through it all, Lincoln seemed immovable. Have you no Christian feelings? He tries to recruit these black men to lead efforts to colonize black folk out of the United States. Special Collections, Lavery Library, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY One white friend read the document and advised Douglass to burn it. The news of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox came the day of Garrison's arrival. Joan D. Hedrick, Historian:Leaving Cincinnati allowed Harriet to look back at those 18 years there and to process that experience of the slave riots, Charley's death, the Fugitive Slave Law, and it all came together in a vision. He's a saint." Season 1 Episode 1Year: 2013 Subjects: Social Studies - History, U.S. History, World History Grades: Not Grade Specific Types: Activities, Homework $2.00 Word Document File Aunt Hester (Ingrid Alli):Oh please, please Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks, audio):No words, no tears, no prayers, seemed to move his iron heart. In Boston, William Lloyd Garrison wondered whether Brown was involved. William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff):Tell your story, Frederick. Students complete a lesson on abolitionism that is structured around film clips from American Experience: The Abolitionists. He was the real thing, and to a Frederick Douglass, he was also the real thing in terms of actually believing, about as deeply as anybody Douglass had ever met, in racial equality. William Lloyd Garrison felt that he was destined to do great things, but he had no idea how to get there. I was just a boy -- hushed, terrified, stunned. United American Costume Company Mark Evans And now you have this political fight going on over what's gonna happen with that land. Firemen stood aside and watched it burn. "Women's rights should not be your preoccupation," he told Angelina, "at least not until the slaves are free." But in their time together, she managed to drum a fierce Christian conscience into her son. David W. Blight, Historian:That was in some ways the turning point of Frederick Douglass's life, and certainly the turning point in the historical life of African Americans. Aljernon Tunsil, Written, Produced and Directed by Sarah Miles Smith It was a tribute to fervent ideals, generosity, and love, to the bitterness and the passions that had moved men and women to bend the arc of history. Art Resource, NY John OConnor We'll give you $800. Julie Buck William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff, audio):Oh, it was a sight worth seeing: Those ragged, coatless men and boys in the pit -- the very material of which mobs are made -- cheering the strongest and sublimest anti-slavery sentiments! They proposed printing 20 to 50,000 pamphlets a week, and mailing them to ministers, elected officials, and newspaper editors in each state, especially in the South. State of Delaware/Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs I never saw joy before. Like untold thousands of young men, he would never fully recover. He called Douglass a liar, and vowed to track him down and send him to the cotton fields of the Deep South. There is a true partnership that can go forward. Had to share the table with them, had to break bread with them, had to sleep in the same quarters with them. Additional Casting Many wondered whether the Union itself could survive. Nathan Shifflette Montrece HillSlave Auction Mother Its words were few, and full of holy fire. So when Douglass returns to the United States he's legally free. 2b. Garrison, Douglass, and every other abolitionist had good reason to wonder whether Lincoln would ever sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Others killed themselves rather than go back to slavery. There, far from the violence and upheaval of abolition's front lines, they would take up their most influential work. Narrator:The Grimks quickly found themselves at the center of a storm. Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks):But how? What if that mob should burst in upon us and commit violence on our persons? Abolitionists bitterly opposed the war as an attempt to expand slave territory, but they were swept away by a national tide of patriotic enthusiasm. an African American who had escaped from slavery . In 1855, he headed to the slave state of Kansas. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Soon, Boston was in an uproar. Jim Briggs III But scattered around the country, a few lonely souls were convinced that slavery was a crime against God and man. The Bridge Sound and Stage, Cambridge, MA Joan D. Hedrick, Historian:And it was said that when the novel was put on stage at the National Theatre in New York, there was not one dry eye when Eliza reached the other side of the river. Angelina Grimk (Jeanine Serralles, audio):I saw slavery in the city, among the fashionable and the honorable. R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Historian:She's confronted with it in such an intimate way, and I think that never leaves her. The Abolitionists Part 3 PBS A Viewing Guide Questions American Experience His eulogy was more than a memorial to one man. The abolitionist movement that emerged in the early 1830s was combative, uncompromising, and insistent upon an immediate end to slavery. Narrator:In the spring of 1838, Angelina and Theodore's friends received a wedding invitation adorned with an engraving of a slave in chains. A few months earlier, scores of abolitionists had descended on New York for a training session. William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff, audio):My Dear Wife: I am going to try to write you a few lines with my own hand. Washington immediately descended into chaos, as one Southern state after another seceded from the Union. Frederick Douglass named his abolitionist newspaper The North Starafter the icon followed by escaped slaves on their journeys to freedom. Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks):Mr. Lincoln is a genuine representative of American prejudice and Negro hatred, and far more concerned for the preservation of slavery than for any principle of justice and humanity. Gregory Patterson In some cases, abolitionists themselves were the targets, as when a New York mob burned Lewis Tappan's house to the ground. Miraculously, Douglass made it to Rochester, where he boarded a boat to Canada. Thirty years after the former 13 American colonies abandoned the Articles of Confederation "in order to form a more . He wanted immediate abolition -- the complete eradication of the institution, everywhere and forever. A collection of American Experience's most literary content. George Reuther The Collection of the Madison County Historical Society, Oneida, NY It was an immediate and an immense bestseller. How can Southerners look at that and say, "Oh these guys are good negotiating partners. Jeanine Serralles There his horizons had widened. Time and again, unimaginable slaughter was eclipsed within months by something even worse. John Brown (T. Ryder Smith):You've been at this for years. Stowe later wrote that there were circumstances of such great bitterness about the manner of his death that she didn't think she could ever be reconciled for it unless his death allowed her to do the some great good to others. And more and more and more as the war goes on, it's a realization that many, many Northerners come to share. You can't be serious. You're prideful. I never imagined William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff):You have an opportunity to strike a blow for the slaves who continue to suffer as we speak. William Lloyd Garrison. She had never before visited a slave state. Narrator:American Slavery As It Isbecame the best-selling book in the country. work of people like Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, and Theodore Weld. They opened the eyes of thousands and put their families . We sit here, all of us, debating this point of law, whether the Constitution says this or that, and in the meantime, day after day, year after year, the slaveholders are free to do their worst. He had to be carried from his jail cell to a cot that was set up in the courtroom. Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks):You flatter me. West Virginia State Archives, Boyd B. Stutler Collection And a few were quietly wondering whether nonviolence could ever free the slaves. She had made up her mind to take up the banner of abolition. You do it by convincing them that there are human beings in peril. I urge you. So perish all compromises with tyranny! Narrator:Angelina Weld kept speaking as showers of stones pelted the windows. But she's not the same know-it-all obnoxious girl she was when she was younger. They flew a blood-red flag on which was inscribed "Southern Rights." Loading Download and Save: AbolitionistStrategiesWorksheet.pdf Source | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning John Stauffer, Historian:Douglass suddenly becomes the most wanted man in the United States. When news of the arrest filtered out, Boston erupted in anger. William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff):Put on the whole armor of God Narrator:Douglass's new life was fraught with danger. They're bullying and intimidating and sometimes killing Northern settlers. Jordan Swenson Timeka Scott Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks, audio):During the last few years, free colored people have despaired of their future in the United States. Come on, boy. I was five. 3 Ask students to guess that they are runaway slaves or anti-slavery sympathizers in the 1830s. Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks):Good Lord, man. Third Assailant (Actor):Come on, let's take him down to the others. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Carol Berkin, Historian:Angelina thinks he walks on water. David W. Blight, Historian:Slaves were the single largest financial asset in the entire American economy, worth more than all manufacturing, all railroad, steamship lines, and other transportation systems, put together. In the late 1820s there were two million men, women, and children living in bondage in the United States. Walter Craigie Jeremiah Hornbaker This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the PBS documentary series "American Experience - The Abolitionists - Episode 1: 1820s-1838." You will receive a PDF file which contains a Video Response Worksheet and Key and a TPT Digital Activity for students (worksheet only). Narrator:When Douglass heard that Garrison was going to address an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, he took a rare few days off and boarded a ferry for the island. Angelina Grimk was on her deathbed, John Brown was in his heaven, Harriet Beecher Stowe had withdrawn from public life. Finally, blinded by his own blood, Sumner collapsed into the aisle, and lost consciousness. Liberators. When the House passed a gag rule forbidding their consideration, it added to Northern suspicions that the government was operating for the benefit of slaveholders. The old political alignments had been destroyed by the argument over slavery, and the election was tilting to the candidate of a new party, Republican Abraham Lincoln. Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks, audio):Dear Friend Garrison: Slavery, our enemy, has landed in our very midst. His 22-year-old daughter, Harriet, had inherited his views. American Experience: The Abolitionists. For this reason, they are now, as never before, looking out into the world for a place of retreat, and asylum. Stacy Simon Garrison was too wary of politics to get involved, but he did meet quietly with one of Lincoln's emissaries. "All persons," Lincoln wrote, "held as slaves within any State in rebellion shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." What will you do? In the spring of 1846 the United States went to war with Mexico, hoping to gain vast territories in the Southwest. Here we have proof positive that there is an utter disregard for the compromises that have been made to found this American republic, to try to keep this thing running. Garrison, Douglass, and their kindred spirits protested in vain as Northern and Southern whites conspired to keep the emancipated slaves in a condition almost indistinguishable from slavery. ***This product is a graphic organizer for students to identify, Part 1 (available on YouTube) students will answer, following questions that are in order with, questions are visually presented in a way where students will also see real characters as. It is so deeply flawed by the fact that human beings are property, that that Republic is doomed. In return for allowing California to join the Union as a free state, Southerners were granted the prospect of someday forming slave states in Utah and New Mexico. And they realize that they're in danger. You said yourself, you became a man when you fought Mr. Henceforth, this day shall take rank with the Fourth of July. There was almost no one left to remember the Revolution. American Experience | Official Site | PBS Rob Rapley, Original Concept Developed by The infighting left the abolition movement fragmented and disheartened. From his jail cell, Brown kept up a stream of correspondence and interviews, which were breathlessly reported throughout the North. Bringing to life the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimke, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, the Abolitionists takes place during some of the most violent and contentious decades in American history. Scott CarterOverseer John Stauffer, Historian:Douglass spends two days trying to convince John Brown not to raid Harpers Ferry. A New York sympathizer bailed him out in the spring of 1830. Now she's genuinely a humanist, she's genuinely a person with great empathy for people who suffer, and great sensitivity to the inequalities in society. Let's negotiate. By refusing to disappear, to be silenced, to accommodate, they had forced millions of Americans to take a stand on slavery, one way or the other. Wisconsin Historical Society Just a few weeks earlier, the president of the United States had sent a massive detachment of federal troops to Boston, all to return a lone runaway slave to captivity. William Lloyd Garrison (Neal Huff):Dear Lord. & Paul Fouquet, C.S.A. He never forgives Douglass. That contribution to our bleeding cause, alone, involves us in a debt of gratitude which cannot be measured. But leave my soul to me, and Henry's to Henry. Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. A terrible fight is at this moment going on between Fort Sumter and the fortifications by which it is surrounded Narrator:Frederick Douglass canceled his trip to Haiti. Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks):I think I will. Grace McKissick He had no job to return to. He had many more black supporters than white supporters. They seem now to be having had anticipated all of these things that are happening. And he starts to say, "The churches are pro-slavery -- we're coming out of all the churches. Christopher Morrow Sarah Grimk (Wendy Carter):My dear, look at you. For three years Douglass shoveled coal, cut wood, and loaded ships, often working two shifts a day. I read your book, sir. Nevertheless, Brown dominated the proceedings. Madison Bay Company It's started! He worked through the night, producing a radical document that crystallized his own beliefs, especially his faith in the power of nonviolence. She walked all the way back a handful of times, but even so, they never let me know her enough to really love her. Everett Grant Each Google Slide/PowerPoint is a stand-alone lesson, refined over many years to provide students with a wide spectrum of learning experiences. Russell Scott, Jr. Angelina Grimk (Jeanine Serralles):You know! The best hope for your people is going to be outside of this country.". The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Written by Isaac Watts No matter how many stories Garrison hears, no matter how many coffles he sees, no matter how many mothers he can imagine and conjure up, Douglass has had that experience. Thomas Coleman For Garrison and many other abolitionists, it seemed that the Slave Power might finally suffer a fatal blow. Angelina Grimk (Jeanine Serralles, audio):Your letter was indeed a great surprise, my brother, and yet it was no surprise at all. Matthew Gooley Sumner would never fully recover. David W. Blight, Historian:The Mexican War unshucked slavery. Jane Samura The war! **************************************************************************. Narrator:Frederick Douglass returned home alone. On the first page of the first issue of his newspaper, Garrison declared, "There shall be no neutrals; men shall either like or dislike me.". . Jim Briggs III R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Historian:It is the most popular book and the most influential book in American history. On a hot August night in 1831, a band of armed slaves rode through the Virginia countryside, killing the white occupants of one farmhouse after another. Narrator:Covey never laid a hand on Douglass again. The Collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County It became dangerous once again to speak out against slavery. But they had exposed the fatal weakness in the Union, and set the nation on course to the gravest crisis in its history. Lynn BandoriaRosetta Douglass Mob (Actors):That was Garrison! R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Historian:Northerners become convinced that Southerners are hell-bent on moving slavery to every part of the country. National Park Service, FRDO 3928 R. Blakeslee Gilpin, Historian:You have the Northern establishment, every newspaper, saying, "This guy's a hero. Marc Flicker Many wondered whether it would disappear altogether. Lois Brown, Historian:Southerners decide we're being attacked and you need to bring these scoundrels to justice, they must be kidnapped, they must be assassinated -- I mean, it's incredible uproar. You lost all the fluids in your body, you were wracked by convulsions, and there was nothing that anybody could do. John Stauffer, Historian:For Douglass, what better symbol of democracy and of racial equality is there in the United States is if the federal government arms and gives uniforms to black soldiers and tells them to kill white men. But Grimk had no intention of returning to the South. John Brown (T. Ryder Smith):As I said, the spark -- we are but the spark. David W. Blight, Historian:The first American Republic, the one invented in the Revolution in the late 18th century, had to die. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Kate Lyn Sheil):Don't they all? They fear that persecution and hardships are to grow more and more grievous with every year. Margie Mazzei, Key Craft Services Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks, audio):I was a changed being after that fight. Narrator:The vehemence of the reaction in the South took the abolitionists by surprise. Julie Roy Jeffrey, Historian:Garrison meets with a group of black abolitionists and he receives very positive support. "SUASION" COMES FROM SAME WORD AS IN "PERSUASION"; MEANS TO CONVINCE OR TO COUNSEL. That narrative was published in 1845. He did, however, have a plan -- a newspaper of his own, to promote immediate abolition. One worksheet and key is included for each episode.Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational, - Episode 1 - Worksheet and Key PDF & Digital, This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on, - Episode 1: 1820s-1838. And Douglass doesn't even tell him first-hand. Thomas Nowlin Pre-made digital activities. Melissa Merry Jennifer Saunders Frederick Douglass (Richard Brooks, audio):A free state around me, and the free earth under my feet!
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