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African American
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Undergraduate 2
04/28/2009
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Benjamin Lundy
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A Quaker began publishing anti-slavery newspaper.  Baltimore using  technique known as (moral 'suasion).  He tried to appeal to to the conscience of the slave owner, trying to convince them that slavery was morally wrong.                        
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Samuel Cornish and John Rusworm

Freedom's Journal

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Two writers who published an antislavery magazine.

 

Freedom's journal the first African-American newspaper published in the United States (N.Y.)

 
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David Walker

David Walker's Appeal

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David Walker a free man (his mother was free)

who was born in North Carolina and moved to Boston.  Went into business near the harbor.  He sold used clothes to sailors. He also became a featured speaker t anti-slavery rallies.

 

His pamphlet was the spark that set off the militant anti-slavery movement.  It was also distributed in the South by means of cthe clothes of the sailors.  Pamphlets were hidden inside of the clothes.
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William Lloyd Garrison

THe Liberator

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A non African-American who was totally militant.  He is done with gradualism.  Immediate abolition of slavery.  No compensation to slave holder for lost investment. 
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