On your note taker, give the definition of the word unalienable.

Then list the 3 unalienable rights listed in the U.S. Constitution.

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Raise your hand if you can list the 4 main harships of slavery.

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​The issue of slavery

What is an abolitionist?

What is Abolition?

unable to be taken away or denied.

Example: We all have the unalienable right to do what makes us happy as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.

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​Unalienable, adj

to end; to stop something completely

Example: Some members of the city council wanted to abolish taxes altogether

Abolition, n. (the process of ending)

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​Abolish, v.

a war between people who live in the same country

Example: A civil war was fought between the Union and the Confederacy in the 1860s.

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​Civil war, n.

the act of setting or being set free.

Example: The enslaved worker asked her slaveholder for emancipation.

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​Emancipation, n.

Our Unalienable Rights:

​Life

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

​Liberty

​Pursuit of Happiness

Here is the TRUTH!

Even though delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed that no new enslaved people would be brought into the United States, they did not agree to stop enslaving people or stop relying on slave labor. Children could still be born into slavery, and slaveholders could still buy and sell enslaved people.

Remember the 4 hardships!

4. They faced life-threatening conditions and were often separated from their families.

1. Forced to work without any form of payment

2. Mistreated
   

3. NOT seen as human beings with basic civil rights. (for example: They were unable to own land or vote in elections)
   

​Enslaved people were...

The Framers of the Constitution included a clause that declared that three out of every five enslaved persons would be counted when determining the population of a state. This is called the Three-Fifths Clause or the Three-Fifths Compromise

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Three-fifths
Compromise

The Hard work of Abolitionists

Sojourner Truth was another important member of the abolitionist movement. Like Douglass, she had once been enslaved. She was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century and lived as a slave for a Dutch family in New York. She was sold several times and then escaped in 1826. A gifted speaker, she traveled across the country preaching about abolition. Truth met Douglass in Massachusetts around 1844 in a community founded by abolitionists. The community became a stop on the Underground Railroad, which you will read about next. Like Douglass, Truth also wrote a book about her time as a slave in the North. At first, the number of abolitionists was small. Only a few thousand people in the whole country bought The Liberator. Even in the North, where more people opposed slavery, abolitionists were not popular. That is because they wanted the country to completely abolish slavery—immediately. Abolitionists spoke at public meetings.

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Sorjourner Truth

Harriet Tubman and...

Conductors

• Helpers, or guides such as Harriet Tubman, were called conductors. The conductors had to think of all kinds of clever tricks to keep the slaves from getting caught. They traveled at night. They hid their “passengers” in attics and basements during the daytime. These safe spots were known as stations.

• The conductors also knew how to survive in the wilderness. They knew which plants and berries were safe to eat. They studied the stars in the sky to figure out the way north. When the sky was too cloudy to see the stars, the conductors would feel around the bottoms of trees. Moss usually grows on the north side of trees, and north was where they were going.

Supporting Question:
Why did many southerner think of seceding from the United States?

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A House Divided

Union vs Confederacy

​Freedom!

​Time to WIN!

​Time to make things RIGHT!